Man pleads guilty to holding female relative as sex slave for 14 years

[n2doc]

A 52-year-old California man has pleaded guilty to holding a female relative as a sex slave in his backyard shed for 14 years, beginning when she was barely a teenager, authorities said.

Raul Ochoa of Richmond, California, would spend the next 22 years in prison under a plea deal in which the victim won't be compelled to testify at the sentencing hearing on February 11, authorities said.

Local media accounts are likening her case to Jaycee Dugard, also held captive in a California backyard structure. Dugard was held from age 11 to 29 and gave birth to two daughters, fathered by her captor, Phillip Garrido. He and wife Nancy were sentenced to long prison terms in 2011.

In the Richmond case, the victim escaped from captivity in 2012 with help from a relative, who brought her to police, Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus said in a letter to the city council, confirming a local newspaper account this week of the crime.

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/us/california-girl-captive-sex-slave/

[Lost_Count]

1. 22 whole years?

What the hell?

[n2doc]

2. I think the key is, the victim didn't have to testify

She's been hurt enough by this monster. I doubt he will have an easy time in jail.

[WinkyDink]

3. "Age 11" is NOT "barely a teenager," a phrasing designed to make it sound less like CHILD-RAPE.

[n2doc]

4. The girl was taken captive in 1998 at age 13, Deputy District Attorney Ryan Wagner told CNN.

You are confusing her with the Dugards. Although there isn't much of a difference, and I agree with you.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. This guy deserves a punishment more creative than a simple prison term.

Holding someone as a slave is one of the worst things you can do to somebody. People like that need to get hard labor, or some other kind of onerous punishment. Right now he's getting the same punishment as some people committing nonviolent crimes, or at least unintentional crimes. That doesn't seem right to me.

[NCTraveler]

6. There is a small chance this man will get out of prison one day.

Rehabilitation should be the main concern while he is in prison. As it should be with all individuals who will one day be getting out.

[cali]

8. no. he doesn't. He's getting 22 years. He's in his 50s.

I gather you deplore Scandinavian criminal justice.

It normal to respond initially on an emotional level, but that shouldn't factor in to criminal justice.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. I'm fine with an enlightened approach for people who don't commit heinous acts.

I'm not in favor of capital punishment either, for if I were, I'd want this guy to get it. But simply giving him a regular sentence like everybody else just seems offensive to me. There should be some recognition of the fact that he not only held someone as a slave for all those years, he raped her over and over and over again. Maybe they should put him in a Supermax and deny him all privileges. Something, at least. That woman is more than likely destroyed, psychologically speaking. She'll never fully recover. It just seems like a crime to give him the same sentence as people who commit much lesser crimes. That's just how I feel about it.

[madokie]

7. Ought to put one of those bands

they use to castrate a bull with around his gonads and let 'm rot off. Never ever let this cretin breathe a breath of free air ever.