Thread: Illegal Alien Gets 27 Years in Sexual Assault of NJ Woman (update)

Posted on Fri, Jul. 10, 2009

Man gets 27 years in sexual assault of NJ woman

The Associated Press

MORRISTOWN, N.J. - A pizza cook who chased down, beat and raped a woman who was walking home from a birthday party in northern New Jersey has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.

Eric C. Rangel, who attacked the woman in April 2007 on a street in Parsippany, must serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed Friday.

A Morris County jury convicted him in March on sexual assault charges. A tape of the frantic 911 call the victim made from her cell phone as she was being chased was a key piece of evidence.

Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto ruled that the 22-year-old Rangel, who is in the country illegally, must register as a convicted sex offender under Megan's Law if he is not deported to his native Mexico after his release.

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