Thread: PA-Man sentenced, life plus 20 to 40 yrs,rape of 5-year old

Man sentenced to life plus 20 to 40 years for rape of 5-year-old
BY JOE MCDONALD (STAFF WRITER)
Published: February 3, 2010

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Contemplating the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, Felix Montoya wrote a letter to the judge, explaining he had made a "big mistake" the night he got high on drugs and alcohol and raped a 5-year-old girl.

On Tuesday, Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse referred to Mr. Montoya's letter before handing down a life sentence, plus 20 to 40 years more.

"It was more than a big mistake," Judge Barrasse said. "It was a heinous and brutal crime."

Mr. Montoya, a native of Colombia who came to the United States via Costa Rica, listened to a translator while Judge Barrasse summed up how Mr. Montoya slipped into the girl's bedroom, locked the door and assaulted her so savagely she later required surgery.

"It's incomprehensible to think such a man exists," said Gene Talerico, the first assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case.

Some people in the courtroom packed with teary-eyed family members clapped when Mr. Montoya was led back to prison. Mr. Montoya pleaded no contest in October to raping a child and causing serious injuries, as well as aggravated assault and burglary.

After the sentencing hearing, the girl's parents held an impromptu press conference at the Lackawanna County Courthouse.

"It's never going to be a chapter that's closed," said Chris Bates, her father. He sighed with relief when he heard the sentence and realized "he's never going to be out another day in his life."

"At least we know no one else will have to go through this," Mr. Bates said.

Some good has grown out of what Mr. Talerico called "the most brutal, most heinous" case "we've seen in this county" and Mr. Talerico and the girl's parents were eager to talk about it after the sentencing.

As a way to help treat children victimized by physical and sexual abuse, the girl's parents have launched "Marley's Mission," a private, nonprofit corporation based on a farm in Honesdale that provides equine therapy for children.

Thirteen horses have been donated for treating children at the 86-acre farm.

April Loposky, the mother of the rape victim, said they got the idea to form the group when they saw the positive changes a horse called Strawberry had on their daughter.

"She got her composure back," Mr. Loposky said. More information on the group is available at Marleysmission.info.

Mr. Montoya was arrested by Taylor police after the girl's parents found him hiding under their daughter's bed.

He had shown up hours earlier at the family's Fourth of July party in Taylor by way of a friend who had been invited.

Mr. Montoya, who had been drinking heavily and smoking marijuana throughout the day, was asked to leave the party because he was "falling down drunk." He was last seen stumbling across the street to a friend's house.

No one noticed that he later returned, obstensibly to use the bathroom at the house.

At the end of the night, the girl's parents went to check on her, but her bedroom door was locked. About two minutes later, the door opened and their daughter ran from the room. Mr. Montoya was found semi-nude under her bed and held until the police arrived.

Contact the writer: jmcdonald@timesshamrock.


http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/man-se ... d-1.592084

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http://www.alipac.us/article-4896--0-0.html

Should be an automatic death penalty for these kinds of crimes. Then they would seldom ever happen.

I'd be in jail for murdering this POS if it was me who caught him in that bedroom.

"We must demand that our elected officials order the immediate removal of all illegal aliens, place our military along the Mexican border, vastly increase interior enforcement, and enact mandatory prison sentences for those who hire illegal aliens."


http://www.examiner.com/x-35821-Immigra ... gal-aliens

One has to wonder what kind of "social network" the little girl's parents have. It apparently is one that extends invitations to illegal alien substance abusers to social gatherings in their house.

Those of us here at ALIPAC know that if someone invited a drunk possible illegal alien to our home for a get together to go on high alert.

These people had no idea of the possible savagery they were being exposed to by the "Friend" that invited this rape and pillage illegal alien to their house!

W

I just checked. There's a press quarantine up on this story. Only running in some small local media markets or newspapers in PA. Looks like two small papers and one local tv station.

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Felix% ... a=N&tab=wn