{"id":69746,"date":"2016-02-05T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T05:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=69746"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:51:10","slug":"palmdale-man-gets-220-years-for-sexually-abusing-underage-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/02\/05\/palmdale-man-gets-220-years-for-sexually-abusing-underage-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale man gets 220 years for sexually abusing underage relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; A Palmdale man who sexually abused three underage female family members was sentenced Friday to 220 years to life in state prison.<\/p>\n<p><b>Richard Edward Ray<\/b>, 37, was found guilty Dec. 9 of 17 felony counts involving three girls between the ages of 5 and 14, according to Deputy District Attorney Stephen Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>The abuse, which began in 1996 and ended with his arrest in September 2014, occurred in the Antelope Valley and Nevada, according to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Ray was convicted of five counts of committing a lewd act on a child, two counts each of continuous sexual abuse, oral copulation or sexual penetration with a child 10 or younger and aggravated assault of a child.<\/p>\n<p>He was additionally found guilty of one count each of forcible rape of a child over the age of 14, incest, sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child 10 or younger, sodomy of a person under 14 with a 10-year age difference, aggravated sexual assault of a child and making criminal threats.<\/p>\n<p>A booking photo of Ray was not immediately released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; A Palmdale man who sexually abused three underage female family members was sentenced Friday to 220 years to life in state prison. Richard Edward Ray, 37, was found guilty Dec. 9 of 17 felony counts involving three girls between the ages of 5 and 14, according to Deputy District Attorney Stephen Morgan. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}