Long Beach : ‘St. Peter’ Rapist Sentenced to 117-Year Prison Term
Joseph Brian Socha, the “St. Peter” rapist, has been sentenced to a 117-year prison term in connection with a series of sexual assaults on women in the Long Beach area.
Socha, 29, said to have told his victims that he was “St. Peter, messenger of the Lord,” was convicted June 13 of oral copulation, robbery, kidnaping, sodomy, rape and rape by a foreign object involving four women between July and September, 1990.
During the trial, two of the victims said Socha cut off their hair and carved upside-down crosses on their backs before throwing them nude from his car.
Under the sentence imposed by Long Beach Superior Court Judge James Pierce, Socha will not be eligible for parole for at least 58 years and six months, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Denis K. Petty, head of the Long Beach district attorney’s office.
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