Child rapist gets 25 years

A child rapist gets 25 years in prison after admitting to his crime. 58-year-old Paul Santos Mafnas, Jr. learning his fate before a superior court judge today. The judge allowing his to get out on parole but that won’t happen until Mafnas turns 78.
Mafnas, a Level 1 Sex Offender, admitted he forced a 10-year-old girl into his car and raped her in an abandoned parking lot in Tamuning.
The nightmare unfolding now more than five years ago.
In superior court Friday morning, Judge Maria Cenzon asked Mafnas how he pleads to first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
“Guilty,” he said inside the courtroom.
He was sentenced to 25 years with credit for the half decade he already spent locked up in the Department of Corrections prison.
The 58-year-old was also given three years parole but by then Mafnas will be 78 before he is eligible.
Mafnas didn’t say anything else in the courtroom.
Prosecuting attorney Christine Tenorio saying the victim is aware of the plea deal.
As reported, Mafnas had already been on the Guam Sex Offender Registry after having been convicted of raping four teenage girls in 1999.
KUAM spoke with defense attorney Stephen Hattori during Mafnas' hearing in March of last year when the court initially rejected the plea agreement.
"From the beginning he’s taken responsibility," said Hattori. "You know, the media has made it very clear, he’s not a first offender. He was very successful on parole. He was getting a lot of supervision. Parole was really just too short. He probably needed programs to keep him on the straight and narrow."
The court also telling Mafnas he must continue to register as a sex offender and ordered he stay away from the girl he kidnapped and raped.