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Deportee Who Raped Paterson Girl, 15, After Illegally Re-Entering US Gets 7¾ Years Deportee Who Raped Paterson Girl, 15, After Illegally Re-Entering US Gets 7¾ Years
Deportee Who Raped Paterson Girl, 15, After Illegally Re-Entering US Gets 7¾ Years UPDATE: A deportee who snuck back into the U.S. and was living illegally in Paterson was sentenced Tuesday to 95 months in federal prison for raping a 15-year-old city girl. Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, a 35-year-old Mexican citizen who was born in Ecuador, had been deported in 2010, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. He'd re-entered the United States when he approached the girl in Passaic County in April 2019, had sex with her, then took her with him on a planned trip to Chicago, Honig said. They never made it that far, however. An Ohio state trooper pulled Morales-Pedraza’s 201…

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Illegal Immigrant Admits Raping Paterson Girl, 15, Taking Her Across State Lines Illegal Immigrant Admits Raping Paterson Girl, 15, Taking Her Across State Lines
Illegal Immigrant Admits Raping Paterson Girl, 15, Taking Her Across State Lines A deportee who'd been living illegally in Paterson after sneaking back into the country admitted Tuesday that he raped a 15-year-old city girl whom he convinced to travel out of state with him, federal authorities said. Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, a 34-year-old Mexican citizen, also pleaded guilty via video conference with a U.S. District Court judge in Newark to illegally re-entering the United States. The Ecuadoran-born Morales-Pedraza, who’d been deported in 2010, approached the girl in April 2019, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. After having sex with her, he took the girl …

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Police: Missing Paterson Girl, 15, Abducted, Raped By Illegal Immigrant Headed To Chicago Police: Missing Paterson Girl, 15, Abducted, Raped By Illegal Immigrant Headed To Chicago
Police: Missing Paterson Girl, 15, Abducted, Raped By Illegal Immigrant Headed To Chicago UPDATE (10/1/2019): A federal grand jury has returned charges against an illegal immigrant living in Passaic County who authorities said abducted and raped a 15-year-old Paterson girl he took to Ohio. Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, a 33-year-old Ecuadorian national who’d been deported in 2010 but snuck back into the U.S., abducted the girl this past April and transported her to Ohio “with the intent that she engage in sexual activity,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. A superseding indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark charges Morales-Pedraza with kidnapping,…

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by Jerry DeMarco