LONG BEACH -- Sentencing was postponed Tuesday for a 19-year-old Long Beach man convicted last month of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl, and family friend, at gunpoint.
Defendant Everardo Gutierrez Rincon is facing a maximum term of more than 50 years to life in prison when he returns to the Long Beach Superior Court on his new sentencing date, scheduled for Friday.
Gutierrez was convicted April 22, on five felony counts related to four incidents in which he raped the 13-year-old victim at either gunpoint or by threatening to smash her in the head with a beer bottle, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Bob Hight said.
The defendant is the brother of the victim's mother's boyfriend and the two families often spent time together for holidays and relied on one another for child care and other needs.
The victim said the sexual assaults began in late August 2008, when her mom had to stay in the hospital while having a baby and the victim was sent with her siblings to stay at the defendant's home - which he shared with his mother, siblings and grandparents, Hight said.
<CF10>The victim said she kept quiet about the attacks because the defendant threatened to kill her and her family if she spoke out.
The incidents finally came to light after the victim talked about the attacks while in confession at church. At the urging of the priest she told her mom, who called police, Hight said.
Defendant Everardo Gutierrez Rincon is facing a maximum term of more than 50 years to life in prison when he returns to the Long Beach Superior Court on his new sentencing date, scheduled for Friday.
Gutierrez was convicted April 22, on five felony counts related to four incidents in which he raped the 13-year-old victim at either gunpoint or by threatening to smash her in the head with a beer bottle, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Bob Hight said.
The defendant is the brother of the victim's mother's boyfriend and the two families often spent time together for holidays and relied on one another for child care and other needs.
The victim said the sexual assaults began in late August 2008, when her mom had to stay in the hospital while having a baby and the victim was sent with her siblings to stay at the defendant's home - which he shared with his mother, siblings and grandparents, Hight said.
<CF10>The victim said she kept quiet about the attacks because the defendant threatened to kill her and her family if she spoke out.
The incidents finally came to light after the victim talked about the attacks while in confession at church. At the urging of the priest she told her mom, who called police, Hight said.
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