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June 27,
2003
Contact:
Lynn Kimbrough, 720-913-9025
CHILD KIDNAPPER
GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
A Denver jury has
convicted Erick Salazar-Rivasplata on all counts today in
his kidnapping and sexual assault trial.
Salazar-Rivasplata
(DOB: 9-7-76) was found guilty of two counts of kidnapping
(F2) and two counts of sexual assault on a child
(F3).
He was accused in
two separate cases in which he kidnapped and sexually assaulted
a 7-year-old girl on her way to school in the fall of 2000, and
kidnapped and sexually assaulted another 7-year-old girl in
January 2001, also on her way to school. Salazar-Rivasplata had
pleaded guilty earlier, but was allowed to withdraw his guilty
plea last year, forcing a trial. The trial spanned two weeks,
during which both victims, now 9 and 10 years old, testified.
Sentencing is
scheduled for September 12, 2003, at 8:30 a.m. in Denver
District Court, Division 13. He faces an indeterminate 16 years
to life prison sentence.
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