Rafael Magana, who was a choir leader at Victory Outreach Church, was sentenced to two years in prison for abusing a 15-year-old girl
A former San Ysidro church leader who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl who was a member of the choir was sentenced Tuesday to two years in state prison.
The victim did not report the assault to police until March of last year due to what police described as “a confluence of factors.” Magana was arrested in August.At Magana’s sentencing hearing in San Diego Superior Court, Deputy District Attorney Zachary Wallace asked for the maximum possible term of three years in prison, citing the “extreme emotional and psychological trauma that Mr. Magana inflicted” on the victim.
“On the night of Nov. 6, my life would change forever,” she said. “My innocence was stolen from me that night. That night would be the first of many that I would question who I am and my self-worth.”
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