On Monday, Vicente Manturano-Soto, 30, pleaded guilty to sexual battery of a minor in a Blaine County courtroom. The Peruvian national told the judge of his experience with his 16-year-old victims, saying that he only wished to “arouse her sexual desires.”
In November, a grand jury indicted Manturano-Soto on four counts of rape, which allegedly occurred in May and June of 2010.
Manturano-Soto's guilty plea avoided the start of a jury trial set to begin the next day as well as a possible life sentence.
Manturano-Soto is scheduled to be sentenced on May 16, and the Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney's Office will reportedly recommend that he be sentenced to seven years in prison.
Before leaving the courtroom, Manturano-Soto announced: “In Peru, it's more free, but the law is different here and I respect that.”
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