WHAT A HEEL: Hail, Mary, Full Of Grace … This Sinner Is A Real Tough Case
Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39, of Omaha, NE, has pleaded no contest to first-degree sexual assault and felony theft charges for stealing a 300-year-old painting of the Virgin Mary worth $100,000 from St. Cecilia Cathedral and selling it for $3,000 in Mexico to pay for an abortion for a teen he raped, reports The Associated Press:
[Douglas County prosecutor Brenda Beadle] said Vallerillo-Sanchez fled to Mexico with … the pregnant teen in March 2007.
"The plan was that when they got to Mexico, she was to undergo an abortion," she said.
When an abortion wasn't possible, Vallerillo-Sanchez pushed to have the baby given up for adoption, Beadle said: "He wanted to do everything he could to get rid of this baby 'cause it was evidence against him."
The teen returned to Nebraska after giving birth, the prosecutor said.
Vallerillo-Sanchez was arrested in February after DNA linked him to the September 2006 assault of the then-14-year-old girl.
Vallerillo-Sanchez could be sentenced to as much as 70 years in prison.
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