Mestizo Pleads Guilty to Horrific Gang Rape and Humiliation of 16-Year-Old Student

SF Gate
January 18, 2014

Elvis Torrentes is one of seven defendants charged in connection with the rape and beating of a 16-year-old Richmond High student. Torrentes faces 26 years in prison, while the other six face life in prison.
Elvis Torrentes is one of seven defendants charged in connection with the rape and beating of a 16-year-old Richmond High student. Torrentes will now only serve 6 years in prison, while the other six face life in prison.

A man charged with participating in a gang rape of a 16-year-old girl outside her Richmond High School homecoming dance pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with the attack in exchange for a six-year prison sentence, a prosecutor said.

Elvis Torrentes, 26, entered a plea to sexual penetration of an intoxicated person before Judge Barbara Zuniga of Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez.

Torrentes will serve six years in prison, said prosecutor Harold Jewett.

Four other men have been convicted for their roles in the 2009 attack.

raped, punched, stomped and urinated upon the nearly unconscious girl over the course of two hours in front of numerous onlookers
Marcelles Peter, Jose Mantano, Elvis Torrentes and John Crane Jr raped, punched, stomped and urinated upon the nearly unconscious girl over the course of two hours in front of numerous onlookers.

In August, Jose Montano, 22, of Richmond and Marcelles Peter, 20, of Pinole were sentenced to 33 years to life and 29 years to life in prison, respectively, after juries convicted them of forcible rape while acting in concert with others, a forcible act of sexual penetration in concert and forcible oral copulation in concert.

Manuel Ortega, Elvis Torrentes, Ari Morales, Marcelles Peter, Jose Montano and John Crane Jr have all been prosecuted for the gang rape.
Manuel Ortega, Elvis Torrentes, Ari Morales, Marcelles Peter, Jose Montano and John Crane Jr have all been prosecuted for the gang rape.

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