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Two men were sentenced to two years probation today for raping a 14-year-old girl. Tony Pacheco (left), 17 at the time of the 2006 crime, and Angel Alverio (right), then 18, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count each of aggravated battery and criminal sexual abuse. The were sentenced to 24 months probation and both have to register as sex offenders for 10 years.
From an NBC 5 story from August, 2006:
After Alverio and Pacheco allegedly made contact with the victim through MySpace...they arranged a July 24 meeting. They then drove her to a house in the 4800 block of West Walton, the home of a 15-year-old boy, [assistant state's attorney John] Henning said.At the boy's home, they "drank alcohol and played video games," Henning said. Chicago Police Officer JoAnn Taylor said the group consumed "a large amount of alcohol."
The girl "became ill, and that is when she was sexually assaulted multiple times by the offenders," Taylor said.
After the drinking, the girl passed out. When she awoke, Pacheco allegedly was having sex with her, according to Henning. She passed out again and woke up to find the 15-year-old having sex with her. After losing consciousness a third time, the girl awoke to find Alverio attempting to receive oral sex from her, Henning said.
The next thing she knew, the 14-year-old woke up in an alley about two miles away at 3253 W. North, where a passerby found her around 3 p.m., Taylor said. The girl was treated at Norwegian American Hospital and released.
The then-15-year-old also pleaded guilty. [S-T]
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So sexual assault doesn't get them any jail time. God. They would have received harsher sentences for simply possessing pot.
Yes, but there really isn't a powerful anti-sexual assault lobby to push for mandatory minimums. And, of course, much of the U.S. population will ignorantly assert that the girl was asking for it.
These Chicago judges are terrible! How can they honestly not give these rapists jail time?!
Ugh I'm gonna be sick, no jail time?!?! Only two years probation?!?! Not a surprise, at all, but I'm still disgusted by it.
Raping an unconscious girl at 14 and 17? I'm sure this was just an isolated incident and these fine young men will go on to contribute to the community.
If they're organ donors.
Chemical castration and 20 years forced labor. Next fucking case.
Guys like these make me wish every community had its own Dexter.
It sucks, but if the giurl was wasted, she can't be a reliable witness, right?
I'm shocked that even these charges don't carry bigger minimum sentences. And only 10 years on the registry? Absolutely ridiculous
Guys like these make me wish every community had its own Dexter.
AMEN.
Just a little needle prick, then it's saran-wrap time.
*sigh* Truthfully, I don't support capital punishment at all, just venting.
And in 10 years, when they aren't dangerous sexual predators anymore (due to some kind of wonderful magic we'll discover in the intervening decade) they'll be completely free of the consequences of their actions.
The victim on the other hand can't say the same.
Ugh, i wish I had read this story BEFORE lunch because now i think I might toss my cookies.
Disgusting.
as disgusted as I am that there is no jail time and saddened that sexual assault of a 14 year old girl is 'not so bad' to incur said jail time - I was still surprised when I read the rest of the article.
the then 15-year old got 5 years of probation. So why is it the then 17 and 18 year olds only get two for the exact same offense? Apparently the younger kid should have known better than the older kids. He should have set the example!
wow - I just feel sick and very sad.
Their "parents" should also be charged or at least named in the press and hounded by TV cameras so every one would know the type of monsters they brought into the world.
p.s nice braids scum bucket
p.p.s why wasn't the kangroo court "judge" named in the paper and the proescutor who clearly operated as a second defense attorney?
spook:
The judge wasn't name so that when the next election comes this case couldnt be used to unfairly run him out of office
as much as these cases are shitty, the prosecutor clearly did not have a good case, had a bad victim and cut the best deal they could. it happens.
if they had been sent away for life, people would be complaining about the inherent racisim in the system etc etc.
Um, no. The whole patriarchic system routinely throws the daughters under the bus for the sake of the sons. The only way these two shits would have gotten more time is if they raped a baby or someone under the age of 9.
um no. they couldn't do better. statistically the victim is lucky this got prosecuted at all.
as much as these cases are shitty, the prosecutor clearly did not have a good case, had a bad victim and cut the best deal they could. it happens.
Your use of the phrase "bad victim" makes me really hope you're never a victim yourself. The fact she might have been traumatized by being repeatedly assaulted by this ambulatory filth should not stand in the way of carrying out the law.
Judges have a great deal of say in sentencing, they don't have to take these deals and they don't have to accept PROBATION for multiple felony rape. That judge should be out on his or her ear. And the D.A who brokered such a deal.
I'm not a law and order nutcase in the slightest, but this is sickening.
I second what Albany Park said about the 14 year old child and add that State's Attorny Dick Devin is a JOKE. Too bad he dosen't defend abused women the way he defends former Chicago Police
Torture and Commander Jon Burge. Please, so many Cook County Judges are like Big Bird, only with arrogance tossed in, this "judge" included. And of course your playing race is as pathetic as your argument
It is practically next to impossible to get a rape case to the point of conviction.
And 'bad victim' might be a sad way of looking at it, but unless you are pretty much white, a virgin, pure as the driven snow, virtuous and really got beat up bad so you had a lot of scenic bruising, then your chances of getting a conviction are slim to none.
Talk about judges...there are judges in this country who will not even allow the prosecutors to use the word 'rape' in their courtrooms because they don't want anything that looks prejudiced against the perp. Oh...and they won't allow anything like 'sexually assaulted' either, so you end up using words like 'was penetrated' which really ends up making the whole ordeal look tame.
Also, it usually takes up to 2 years or more to even get a rape case to court. That's pretty frustrating and tiring for the victim/survivor of the rape. The whole system is set up for the attacker and definitely not the victim/survivor.
From the actual attack, to what goes on in the ER directly following the attack and then the court system. It's all like getting raped over and over again.
Thanks Ingrid. That was exactly my point.
The amount of outrage here should be applied to ALL rape cases that are prosecuted because inevitably they end up more similar to this than not.
To pretend like this was a specific outcome because of a "kangaroo court" judge or prosecutor is naive.
This is the *norm* people.