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Woman is believed, her sexual assaulter is sentenced to prison

May 29, 2011 By HKearl

Luis Enrique Sossa Maltese

Luis Enrique Sossa Maltese, a 39-year-old carpenter, was recently sentenced to four years and six months in prison for groping a 25-year-old woman near Central Park and the Plaza of Social Guarantees in San Jose, Costa Rica. First he groped her butt and crotch and then he came back around and made an upskirt grab!

The survivor of this sexual assault came forward, she said, to seek justice and the ability to to walk through the streets without fearing he will assault her again. Fortunately, the judge said he believed her, and the man will be in jail for a while. Hopefully his arrest will deter would-be gropers and sexual assaulters from harming other women.

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