Man pleads guilty to rape of girl, 10
Jose Abel Zelaya-Ascencio
A 32-year-old man pleaded guilty in Prince William Circuit Court on Monday to raping a 10-year-old girl.
Jose Abel Zelaya-Ascencio, of no fixed address, was charged with raping the girl at her family’s home in the 7500 block of Alleghany Court on Oct. 22, 2007.
According to court testimony Monday, the girl was awakened at 5:35 a.m. that morning when Zelaya-Ascencio broke into the house and went into her bedroom.
The girl, who was home alone with her 7-year-old brother, said she tried to get away, but Zelaya-Ascencio overpowered her and raped her, police said.
The girl told police that her attacker wore a bandanna over his face, but she suspected it was Zelaya-Ascencio, who had rented a room at her house prior to the incident.
Zelaya-Ascencio denied being at the house that morning and being involved in the rape, but DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene, police said at the time.
Prosecutors are recommending that Zelaya-Ascencio be sentenced to 20 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, and 10 years of probation.
His sentencing hearing is set for March 6.
Zelaya-Ascencio is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador and could face deportation, officials said.
Staff writer Amanda Stewart can be reached at 703-878-8014.
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Their are bleeding hearts in both parties John.
By saying i am a member of one party strikes at my Independentmindedness and my Independent affiliation and i consider that a personal attack as well.
Since you said you were so far right you were coming up on my left i consider that an obvious point and truth to call you on.
In addition it is so obvious what Blue Doggette’s affiliations and criminal activities are it is just plain ludicrous to hear her try to reply.
If you continue to insist politics is part of what this ridiculous criminal illegal alien has done, then lets get it on.
Blue doggette this is war this is more than a bloodsport. You steal from me or legal Americans this is the consequence. We are at a state of war and you are siding with the enemy. Consider yourself Persona Non Grata. This will continue until Illegal Immigration is cut down or stopped and politicians Republican and Democrat are held accountable for their disastrous and unconsciable actions towards their legal constituents.
Other than that Merry Christmas, LOL Chris Cummings
It will go until the 4th of July if CC is involved. He must have the last word. It is a blood sport with him.
But I was just thinking the same thing myself. I hate to uncheck.
OH, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Can you two just argue about another subject? There are several new ones to choose from within this media. I know I have the option to uncheck the follow up comments box so I don’t have to read your rediculous bickering via e-mail notification but I still enjoy other peoples comments from other subject matter…LMAO!
Well, the truth needs no embellishment.
You started this with B:
Am i? If the prisoner wants to die, shouldn’t he be afforded that opportunity or would it be better to let the punishment fit the crime? I am going to assume that A) You don’t have children. B) You are a bleeding heart. C) The victim is always wrong. LOL Chris Cummings
I responded to your “bleeding heart” comment, which is part and parcel of saying someone is liberal and a personal attack. I said I am not only conservative, but a Republican.
You went off on that by refering to “Pub” and “Pubs” with disparaging remarks. In fact, you made a point of repeating my statement about being so far to the right that I am coming back on your left.
What should be taken by that is I believe in a return to conservative values and I consider freedom and justice and due process to be the cornerstone of the Constitution.
YOU chose to make the disparaging remarks.
YOU chose to twist what I said into something else.
YOU started this running rag by disparaging “Pubs.“
YOU made this about politics in regard to things I do not consider such, but if you do that or want that, I am prepared for it. I have plenty of time in my life to consider my politics carefully.
On the other hand, DO NOT TELL ME that politics does not or should not come into this.
At this point you are only continuing to embellish the truth. LOL Chris Cummings
At this point, you are only lying to yourself.
You did it to yourself by making it political, you lost the argument and you just can’t accept it. Just surrender already. I read every post and nothing was mentioned the way that you so eloquently put it. LOL Chris Cummings
Is that is? You are done?
You used “conservative” in a context that denies the possibility of any other use. Read what you write.
Besides that, you have no concept of what is conservative in any other context. Other than the possibility of being “conservative” politically, if conservative was a felony, there would not be enough evidence to convict you.
You have no idea of what it means to be cautiously moderate or purposefully low. You would not understand how to be disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
Nor did you use it in any such context that a reasponable person could interpret that way.
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