Thread: Man receives 180 years for robbing, raping convenience store

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Man receives 180 years for robbing, raping convenience store clerk
By The Associated Press

BOZEMAN - An illegal immigrant who pleaded guilty to robbing and raping a pregnant convenience store clerk last year was sentenced Friday to the maximum of 180 years in prison.

Jose Gonzalez-Menjivar, 32, of El Salvador, nodded in understanding to a nearby interpreter as the verdict was read.

His attorney, Mariah Eastman, called the sentence "clearly extreme."

"It's essentially a death sentence by prison," she said, adding that she may ask for a sentence review. Eastman had asked District Judge Holly Brown to send her client to prison for 35 years.

Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert lauded Brown's decision.

"It's unfortunate we can't rely on the protection of our borders to safeguard us from people like Menjivar," he said.

Gonzalez-Menjivar spent 10 years in a Texas prison for assaulting an officer before being deported back to El Salvador in 2001. He returned to the United States and had been living in a tent in Bozeman for about two weeks before the assault.

On April 3, 2005, he entered a Town Pump gas station, held a knife to the 21-year-old store clerk's throat and demanded money. He then dragged her into the bathroom and raped her.

He was arrested following a short standoff.

Gonzalez-Menjivar originally pleaded guilty but later changed his plea, saying said he didn't understand the charges. He changed his plea back to guilty to rape, robbery and aggravated kidnapping nearly a year later.

At Friday's hearing, Brown said the store clerk suffers from nightmares and is too scared to work.

"This victim was injured physically, emotionally and psychologically," she said.

A civil lawsuit by the victim is pending.

It names city and county officials and alleges that law enforcement was not prepared to handle a hostage situation and could have prevented the clerk from being raped in the convenience store bathroom.


Published on Saturday, May 13, 2006.
Last modified on 5/13/2006 at 8:25 am

This could have only been prevented if our country had enforced its immigration laws and the city and council had no idea this lunatic was on the loose!

We should be bombarding our elected official's with incidences like this to show them the social ramifications of their pro-illegal alien stance especially since the majority of these egregious acts are committed by previous deportees.

Originally Posted by Brian503a

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/13/news/state/53-rape-robbery.txt

Man receives 180 years for robbing, raping convenience store clerk
By The Associated Press

"It's essentially a death sentence by prison," she said, adding that she may ask for a sentence review.

And the problem is?! He should be sentenced to death, then taxpayers wouldn't have to pay for him to be imprisoned.

I agree annie, why pay for him if he will be in prison for the rest of his natural life? And if he wasn't allowed to be here illegally this crime and many others would not happen. We have enough issues here with our own criminals we do not need some other countries as well.

After reading all these posts where illegal immigrants are causing the deaths of American citizens, I began to wonder just how many people have died because of an illegal immigrant. I know of 2 in the last 6 months in the rural area of Pennsylvania where I live. So how many in big cities of the southwest???
Add up the total since Bush took office! He should be ashamed of himself that it took him over 6 years to think about using the military on the border! And now only because of the pressure that people have put on him. He's a disgrace to the country. He was more interested in protecting Iraq's borders! If he thinks that everyone will now roll over and accept his amnesty plan because of him using the military, I've got news for him!

31scout check out this site and you will see the impact that illegal aliens have had on murder in this country. It is truly heartbreaking.

http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/

The human cost site shows but a very few of the crimes illegals commit and is not up-to-date.

I add several crimes daily to my collection and I don't even try much to gather those.

Then, you have to factor in the media that never bother mentioning a perpetrator is an illegal alien.

We are paying a very HIGH price for business to have low wages.