A Greeley man with a juvenile history of sexual assaults will spend the next 10 years to life in prison for the rape of a 12-year-old girl last summer.
Raul Jesus Mendoza, now 20, was listed as a sex offender before the July 2008 incident. He was arrested, and subsequently convicted of taking a 12-year-old into his west Greeley apartment and raping her.
The Weld District Attorney's office reports Mendoza is in the United States illegally, and he will serve his prison sentence before being deported. Iin April, a Weld District Court jury found him guilty at trial of sexual assault on a child causing bodily injury and sexual assault, overcoming a victim's will.
The girl last summer told her parents two days after the incident that Mendoza lured her into his apartment, then raped her. The 12-year-old and her sister were at the apartment complex to visit a friend, the warrant stated, when Mendoza took the girl into a bedroom, removed her clothes and raped her. Mendoza also was visiting the apartment, but he lives in another building of the complex.
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