'Despicable degenerate' sentenced for New Year's rape

November 9, 2:11 PMChicago Crime ExaminerDeborah O'Malley

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Ernesto Puga    Police photo

A Joliet man described as a "despicable degenerate" is sentenced to six years in prison for the rape of his son's friend who had spent the night at the family's home after a New Year's Eve celebration.

Ernesto Puga, 42, was sentenced Friday for the attack on an 18-year-old woman in the early morning hours of January 1, 2008.

According to the Will County state's attorney's office, Puga  was drunk when arrived home at 6 a.m. that morning. He found the young woman asleep in a bedroom and attacked her. She was choked and raped.

"Because of his reprehensible deviance, this despicable degenerate will close out each of the next several years behind prison bars as a guest of the Illinois Department of Corrections, "  said State's Attorney James Glascow in a press release.