Just a horrific ordeal for a mom and daughter to go through.
Fortunately, the abuser will spend the rest of his live behind bars.
On the night of Jan. 5, 2019, a woman called 911 and told the operator she was going to shoot Ivan Alejandro Robles after she walked in on him sexually assaulting her 13-year-old daughter in her Sugar Land home. The mother held Robles at gunpoint until police arrived.
The case was set for trial last week when Robles decided to plead guilty to the charge of continuous sexual abuse of a young child.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The teenage abuse victim testified during the punishment hearing.
“According to investigators, she provided powerful and heartbreaking details about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Robles, which began when she was only 5 years old. Her testimony outlined a progression of abuse that escalated over a span of eight years. The abuse included a depraved method of punishment the defendant inflicted on the child when she refused his instructions to perform certain sexual acts. The painful testimony also revealed that the survivor began contemplating suicide when she was 10 years old as a means of escaping the abuse...
In her closing argument to the court, lead prosecutor Ramos argued that the survivor was denied a childhood because Robles chose to inflict his vile sexual desires on her at such a young age. Ramos ended her closing argument by requesting the court to impose a life sentence so that Robles would have to endure the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life, just as the victim would have to suffer the trauma caused by the defendant’s abuse for the rest of her life.
Continuous sexual abuse of a young child is a first-degree felony punishable by 25 to 99 years or life in prison, with no possibility of parole, and a fine up to $10,000.”