Serial Rapist Gets 157 Years to Life
Proclaiming his innocence to the end, a convicted serial rapist was sentenced Friday to 157 years to life in prison for robbing and raping four women in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutors said.
Jose Luis Zarate told Superior Court Judge Darlene Schempp that he was innocent and has filed an appeal.
Prosecutors had requested the maximum penalty for Zarate, 28, who abducted, raped and robbed the women at gunpoint in a three-week period in 1996. Schempp granted the prosecutor’s request, sentencing Zarate to 25 years to life for raping each woman and an additional 57 years and eight months for repeated rapes, robberies and kidnappings.
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