• Mexican gets prison sentence for 'brutal attack' and rape of girlfriend

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    An El Dorado Superior Court judge sentenced a man to 60 years
    and four months to life in prison for a “brutal attack” on his
    then girlfriend, choking her and cutting her with scissors over
    two days before raping her, prosecutors said.

    Edgar Bringas-Zavala was sentenced Feb. 18 by judge Suzanne
    Kingsbury, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office
    announced Monday in a news release. On Tuesday, Bringas-Zavala,
    47, remained in custody at the El Dorado County Jail awaiting
    transfer to a state prison, jail records show.

    After deliberating for about 45 minutes, a jury on Jan. 19 found
    Bringas-Zavala guilty of rape, two counts of domestic violence
    causing injury, false imprisonment and making criminal threats,
    according to the District Attorney’s Office.

    Prosecutors have said Bringas-Zavala committed a “brutal attack”
    on the woman, choking her, smothering her and beating her, along
    with cutting her with scissors and threatening to kill her with
    a butcher knife before cutting off her clothes and raping her.

    Bringas-Zavala was arrested in June 2020 after the victim
    reported the crime to the South Lake Tahoe Police Department.

    Prosecutors have called Bringas-Zavala a “career woman-abuser”
    who has served multiple prison sentences for previous
    convictions. Bringas-Zavala was released after serving a 10-year
    prison sentence less than a year before the 2020 rape occurred.

    During his three-week trial, the victim and four other people
    victimized by Bringas-Zavala testified about their violent
    encounters with him and how they broke the cycle of violence,
    according to the District Attorney’s Office.

    The judge “had never seen a victim be so frightened during her
    testimony that she literally shook the judge’s bench,” the
    prosecutors said in the news release.

    Bringas-Zavala’s former girlfriend also spoke in court during
    his sentencing hearing last month, and the other domestic
    violence victims were in attendance.

    Deputy District Attorney Kassie Cardullo prosecuted the case
    against Bringas-Zavala, and the case was investigated by the
    South Lake Tahoe police and the District Attorney’s Office.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article259664595.html#st orylink=moresection

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