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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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