Repeat child abuse offender gets 25 years in prison after pleading guilty | News

Repeat child rapist Paul Santos Mafnas Jr. was sentenced to 25 years in prison with the possibility of parole after a change of conviction on Friday.

Guam Supreme Court Judge Maria T. Cenzon accepted Mafnas’ guilty plea in connection with a 2019 child rape.

He admitted to one count of first-degree sexual abuse and as part of the agreement, all other pending charges were dropped.

The judge had previously rejected a plea bargain that would have sentenced him to 15 years in prison, which is not enough for a Level 1 registered sex offender.

Twenty years earlier, in 1999, Mafnas pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping four teenagers. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison and served 18 of them. According to the chair of the parole board, he “coping well with his probation” and his parole was reduced by a year. In July 2018, he was a free man.

Eight months later, he raped another child.

In April 2019, Mafnas was arrested after kidnapping a 10-year-old girl at gunpoint as she walked to a bus stop in Tamuning. He raped her and then dropped her off at a nearby school.

Mafnas was charged with sexual abuse and kidnapping. He told investigators that “sexually molesting underage girls was an addiction he could not resist,” according to the judge’s complaint to the Supreme Court.

During his hearing on Friday, he said only one word. Cenzon asked him, “How do you plead guilty or not guilty, Mr. Mafnas, to the misdemeanor of first-degree sexual abuse, a first-degree felony?”

“Guilty,” he replied.

Mafnas is 58 years old. He will be credited for the time he has already served. After his release from prison, he was also sentenced to three years’ probation.

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