Utah man found guilty of sodomy and rape of 8-year-old girl

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah man has been found guilty of felony counts of sodomy and rape of a child.

KUTV-TV reports that a jury on Monday convicted 35-year-old Oscar Alonso Nunez on allegations that he repeatedly sodomized and raped an 8-year-old girl over the course of eight months.

The victim disclosed the assaults to her mother. She was examined and treated at a hospital and forensically interviewed at the Children’s Justice Center.

Nunez is scheduled to be sentenced June 6. He was found guilty of two counts of sodomy upon a child, two counts of rape of a child and one count of attempted sodomy upon a child - all first-degree felonies.

The first four counts carry a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in the Utah State Prison.

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Information from: KUTV-TV, http://www.kutv.com/