A justice ordered a 10- to 25-year situation condemnation Wednesday for a erstwhile Las Vegas younker shot manager who admitted to kidnapping and lewdness with a child.
“Your behaviour is concerning to this tribunal due to the fact that I hold with the state: what happened successful this lawsuit is each parent’s worst nightmare,” said District Judge Danielle Pieper.
In summation to the situation time, Pieper ordered Sergio Reyes Rojas, 45, to registry arsenic a enactment offender.
The erstwhile manager of the Las Vegas Diversity DC shot nine was arrested Dec. 10.
He pleaded blameworthy successful April to a number of lewdness with a kid nether 16 and a number of second-degree kidnapping.
Defense lawyer Michael Horvath said aft tribunal that Reyes Rojas is undocumented and is expected to beryllium deported aft helium is released from prison.
The Metropolitan Police Department said Reyes Rojas offered a 14-year-old miss a thrust arsenic she walked location successful the aboriginal hours of Nov. 23 and sexually assaulted her.
DNA grounds from a intersexual battle kit showed a transportation to Reyes Rojas, according to a constabulary report.
The condemnation Pieper ordered was the maximum possible, according to Deputy District Attorney Michael Allmon.
“He’s retired looking for young teenage girls who are susceptible to prime up to sexually assault,” helium said. “He is each parent’s worst nightmare successful this case.”
Allmon said the grounds against Reyes Rojas was “overwhelming” and that the unfortunate was sexually assaulted. He argued that the suspect had already benefited from accepting work due to the fact that the imaginable situation clip helium faced had been reduced by the plea deal.
Reyes Rojas had antecedently faced counts of intersexual battle with a kid nether 16, earlier pleading to the lesser charges.
“Mr. Rojas took work for each of this,” Horvath told the judge. “He didn’t cognize her property but helium understands what the instrumentality is.”
The authoritative said Reyes Rojas was seen connected video buying the unfortunate intoxicant astatine a state station. The unfortunate reported telling Reyes Rojas she was 14, but the suspect said she told him she was 19, according to Allmon.
Horvath said his lawsuit offered her a ride. The unfortunate specified the intoxicant she wanted and did not get retired of the car erstwhile she was near unsocial successful it, according to the attorney. Reyes Rojas’ presumption is the unfortunate said she was 19, helium said.
“It’s unusual that you would inquire idiosyncratic their property erstwhile you’re going to springiness them a ride,” Pieper said.
The justice said the unfortunate did not look similar a 19-year-old successful a photograph she viewed.
Police said Reyes Rojas gave the unfortunate $140. Allmon said $100 of it was counterfeit.
“This was a troubled kid the suspect recovered connected the thoroughfare successful the mediate of the night,” Allmon said.
The authoritative said Reyes Rojas besides tried to lure a 15-year-old girl, who was sitting astatine a autobus stop, successful 2024, by offering her marijuana to get into his car, but that the miss evaded him.
The anterior lawsuit was submitted to prosecutors, who did not prosecute it, helium said, adding that with that lawsuit lasting alone, prosecutors whitethorn person had trouble proving intent.
The unfortunate did not talk astatine the sentencing hearing.
Reyes Rojas said successful a tearful connection that helium prays for the unfortunate to retrieve and beryllium successful.
“I’m precise ashamed of myself,” helium said.
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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