In an earlier child-rape case, Anthony Turner of Westfield was sentenced to 18 to 20 years.
SPRINGFIELD – A 26-year-old Chicopee man has been sentenced to 18 to 25 years in state prison for nine counts of sexual crimes done to one child over four years.
Juan A. Gonzalez was sentenced Wednesday by Hampden Superior Court Judge Tina S. Page, who went with the sentence recommendation of the prosecutor.
When Gonzalez gets out of prison he will be on probation for 10 years.
The child rape and other crimes took place in Chicopee when the girl was between six and nine years old.
Assistant District Attorney Jane E. Mulqueen told Page the psychological damage to the girl is immeasurable.
She said she only hopes the social services being provided to the victim can help her.
Mulqueen said Gonzalez committed numerous sexual acts on the little girl numerous times. “There were violent acts,” she said, in arguing for her sentence recommendation rather than the 10 years recommended by defense lawyer Dale E. Bass.
Gonzalez pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and abuse of a child aggravated by age; two counts of rape of a child with force; one count of assault and battery; and five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old.
This was the second lengthy sentence given in a child rape case in that court over the past month.
Late last month 39-year-old Anthony Turner of Westfield was sentence by Page to an 18- to 20-year state prison sentence followed by 10 years of probation.
Turner pleaded guilty to kidnapping, two counts of rape and abuse of a child aggravated by age, and one count each of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (knife). The crimes happened in Westfield.