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Monday, February 8th, 2010.
Issue 06, Volume 14.

MURRIETA - A 27-year-old man who lured a woman to his Temecula apartment with a request for Tupperware catalogs was found guilty today of raping her at knife point.

Rafael Solorio faces a maximum180 years to life in prison when he is sentenced March 19.

The jury took less than a day to convict Solorio of two counts of rape; one count of forced sexual penetration with a foreign object and three counts of forced oral copulation.

The jury also found sentence-enhancing knife and serious felony allegations to be true, and Solorio admitted a prior strike -- a 2004 attempted robbery conviction.

Solorio lured the Tupperware sales representative to his residence in the 40000 block of Moraga Road on June 5, 2008, under the pretense that Advertisement
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his wife -- who also sold Tupperware -- was in need of some catalogs, according to testimony by the victim and sheriff's Detective Phillip Rice.

When she arrived, the defendant tricked her into coming inside, then assaulted her at knifepoint.

The attack occurred over a period of two hours -- from 11 a.m. to about 1 p.m. -- before the woman told the defendant he needed to "either kill me or let me go,'' according to Deputy District Attorney Jess Walsh.

At one point, she threw up and had to go to the bathroom, where the defendant assaulted her again, according to the prosecutor. She was eventually allowed to take a shower and leave.

The defense did not put on a case.

 

6 comments for "27-year-old man found guilty for raping Tupperware lady at knife point"



7:08 am Tue, Feb 9th, 2010
1. Lee Chew says :

Good job jury. 180 years sentence, what's that 10 years really. Our system sucks. This woman should be able to choose the sentence from a 5 item list, hanging, firing squad, the chair, thrown out of an air plain (No Parashoot)above the desert and number 5 being her choice.

8:31 am Tue, Feb 9th, 2010
2. observer says :

how about repeated electrocution to his testicles ?

11:03 am Tue, Feb 9th, 2010
3. diddy says :

"observer" ur gross thats sick and disgusting!! u sicko u should get electricuted

8:20 pm Tue, Feb 9th, 2010
4. observer says :

Hey 'diddy' -well unfortunately what that man did to that woman was 'gross' , 'sick' and 'disgusting' so why not serve similiar dehumanizing, sexual and painful punishment so he might understand the trauma she went through at his hands? I find it interesting that you would condem me for my comment when this guy committed the crime.

12:57 pm Wed, Feb 10th, 2010
5. Murrieta dad says :

In response to Lee Chew. 180 years to life means he is eligible for parole in 180 years.

6:36 pm Tue, Feb 16th, 2010
6. rj says :

NEXT!

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