Example of juvenile home sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexual abuse

A former immigrant home worker in Arizona He was sentenced to 19 years in prison for badually abusing seven teenagers detained there., reported today the US Attorney 's Office.

Levian D. Pacheco, a carrier of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), was sentenced by District Judge Steven P. Logan to 19 years of imprisonment, followed by life-guarded life.

The former hostel employee who operates the business Southwest Key in Phoenix (Arizona), had previously been convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of abusive badual contact and three badual abuse with students.

On January 14, the jury convicted Pacheco, 25, for badually abusing several children on more than one occasion, Judge Logan ordered that several of the counts be executed consecutively.

The maximum legal sentence for badual abuse of a neighborhood is 15 years in prison and the legal maximum for badual contact abusive is 2 yearsbut that of Pacheco increased because he exposed some of his victims to the HIV virus.

The evidence presented at the trial showed that between August 2016 and July 2017, the new convict badually abused many male teens in the Facilit Key, in Mesa, Arizona.

The charges include having made oral bad with two of the teens and trying to force him to penetrate him badly. Other adolescents, all ages between 15 and 17 years, declared that he had touched them through his clothes.

At first, the case was reported to Mesa Police Department, but because of its magnitude, the investigation arrived at the federal levelso it was realized through the United States District Court.

In 2016, Pacheco worked for four months at the shelter. Casa Kokopelli, one of eight that runs Southwest Key in Arizonawhere he was employed without prior verification of his criminal record or previous convictions badual crimes.

Pacheco was formally charged in August 2017 after an investigation by the local police and the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Social Services of the United States.

The investigation was carried out by the Department of Health and Social Services, the office of the Inspector General, as well as the Mesa Police Department.

With information from EFEUSA