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Palmdale man gets 220 years for sexually abusing underage relatives

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LANCASTER – 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 abuse, which began in 1996 and ended with his arrest in September 2014, occurred in the Antelope Valley and Nevada, according to the prosecutor.

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.

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.

A booking photo of Ray was not immediately released Friday.

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17 comments for "Palmdale man gets 220 years for sexually abusing underage relatives"

  1. Outrage! These people rarely reoffend. He should have been given a year, maybe two. Rarely reoffend!

    • The youngest girl was his own daughter…
      He was found out because she got pregnant !
      It happened over a 15 year period !
      I sat on this jury, there were a total of 17 counts against him, he was found guilty on all 17 counts…
      Oh and he repeatedly offended these 3 girls!

    • Hey I wouldn’t be surprised if someone went around and put an end to some of this…I will name the program “dots” you don’t want to be impacted by dots

  2. what law calls rape and what it is don’t matter- all of it- is bull I have no tolerance for. kill all these sick loosers. stop wasting tax dollars on keeping them alive to release them early. stop being stupid about how they have rights- bo they don’t. not in my book

  3. How and why did this unconscionable behavior go on for almost 20 years?! Who enabled him and turned a blind eye? Did he keep getting the targeted breeder pregnant so he could keep having a supply of little girls to molest, assault and rape?!
    That vicious twisted depraved monster molested and abused his targeted “prey”- children of course, especially unsupervised ones. The youngest being only 5 years old!
    Ruined for life after years of his deviant abuse.

    Those atrocious acts should have been prevented before it happened. Rather telling that none of the girls sought out their mom/s for help or protection! That right there is another reason why they were targeted and he was allowed to get by with those heinous acts- lack of parental caring,supervision, nurturing, protection, and being a real parent!

    I hope that pedophile Richard Rey, gets back in spades and more painful comeuppance, than what he has put his victims through.

    • I agree. Where were the parents? Especially the moms? I know if it were my child I’d know something wasn’t right right away. You have to blame the parents also.

      • screw both of you. you have no idea what you’re talking about. the parents are not to blame for this. you people are sick.

    • Don’t assume that the girls didn’t report the abuse the abuse to other family members. Your comments make it seem like the girls did something wrong and were therefore “targets.” These were CHILDREN, being abused not just by an adult, but by a family member … in one case, the child’s own father, as evidenced by the incest charge. Pedophiles are very crafty, and often threaten their victims and the victim’s extended family members to keep their actions hidden. Is it any wonder that these girls may not have said anything to protect others? Would you as a 5 or 14 year old report your dad, who is supposed to be your protector, or be too scared because your dad threatened to kill your mother/sister/cousin if you told?

  4. He deserves whatever he gets in jail… I think anytime harm of the sexual nature is done to a child the person responsible should get the death penalty. Kids are innocent and this sick perverte had no right to take their innocence. …

    • well he will most likely be the punching bag- body bag they all kick around and guards actually allow these kind to get true justice they deserve- still we pay tax dollars for it to be kept alive? seriously- death penalty- just tie them up- cheap rope- or spread eagle them and dump gas or lighter fluid on them- flick a match and let them burn. really cheap…. cost less then we spend on tax dollars pAYing the fuel and transport cost from court to jail. all of that cost us tax dollars- so I say found guilty- just kill them.

  5. Abused victims from 1996-2014 and gets 220 years? Why not simply castrating this animal and set him free.

    • Do not set him free, just cause he has no balls, does not mean he can’t hurt another child… Put him in open population.. Let the lifers take care of it

    • The problem with castration is that sexual assault isn’t just driven by lust. The power aspect is much bigger, so one can still commit rape. I agree with letting the other inmates take care of it.