MASSACHUSETTS
Lowell Sun
By Lisa Redmond, lredmond@lowellsun.com
UPDATED: 12/17/2015
LOWELL — Oscar Sanchez, the pastor of a small local church, was convicted of repeatedly molesting and raping a girl for years while his wife and co-pastor, Luisa Osario-Sanchez, was found guilty of abusing the child and allowing the sexual assaults to continue.
After a four-day trial in Lowell Superior Court, a jury found Sanchez, 35, of Lowell, guilty of: aggravated child rape (four counts), rape of a child by force (four counts), rape (two counts), and one count each of indecent assault and battery on a person under 14, indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, and reckless endangerment of a child, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.
The jury found him not guilty of one count of rape.
Osario-Sanchez, 43, of Lowell, was convicted of assault and battery and reckless endangerment of a child. She was cleared of assault with intent to murder.
Sentencing of the couple is scheduled for Jan. 15.
During the trial, the victim, now 19, testified that the sexual abuse began when she was 6. She testified that Oscar Sanchez would come to her bed at night and molest her under the guise of praying with her. The victim lived with the couple.
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