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January 23, 2005
San Jose man sentenced to 102 years in prison for kidnapping and rape
January 23, 2005
San Jose, CA [Associated Press]
San Jose, Calif. A San Jose man who was convicted of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl has been sentenced to 102 years in prison.
Daniel Montiel Cruz was sentenced Friday by Santa Clara County Judge Rene Navarro for the three-day abduction in 2003, when the girl was kidnapped from her San Jose home after she returned from school.
In September, a jury found Cruz guilty of 10 felonies for an assortment of crimes, including burglarizing the house, binding and raping the girl, and assaulting the girl's mother and teen brother.
The victim, now 11, was not in court, but she wrote a letter telling the judge she would feel safer if Cruz was jailed for the rest of his life.
Cruz's attorney vowed to appeal the conviction and sentence. He maintains that Cruz was incapable of knowing right from wrong, and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood abuse.
Posted by Nancy at January 23, 2005 07:16 PM