Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office: Man sentenced to 9 years in prison for trying to rape 14-year-old girl
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — Officials sentenced a 26-year-old man to nine years in prison after he broke into a 14-year-old girl’s bedroom window and tried to rape her.
According to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, Jose Oliva-Marin of Montgomery Village pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree rape in November of 2023.
Prosecutors said that he broke into the girl’s bedroom window in her family’s apartment in October of 2021. When she tried to escape, he physically assaulted her and said, in Spanish, “Make love to me or die.” The girl was able to escape, and her family members called 911.
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Officials said that Oliva-Marin had left when the girl escaped, but police caught him shortly afterward in the apartment complex. Investigators linked him to the case via DNA and other types of evidence.
The State’s Attorney’s Office said that the victim’s mother knew of Oliva-Marin.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison suspend all but nine years and five years of supervised probation after release. He will also have to register as a sex offender for life.
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