KING5.com: Shoreline man charged with rape, burglary, and assault

From our News Partner KING5.com

A Shoreline man has been charged with rape, burglary and assault in Sunday’s rape of a 12-year-old girl.

Bail was increased to $1 million for 37-year-old Jesse R. Gonzales. He was charged Friday with first degree rape and first degree burglary with sexual motivation.

Because the alleged sexual assault involves a victim under the age of 15, King County prosecutors say a conviction would trigger a mandatory 25-year prison sentence. Gonzales could also end up spending the rest of his life in prison. A parole board has the authority to keep an inmate in prison for life for conviction on certain sex offenses.

"A person who would break into a home and rape a 12-year-old child has forfeited his right to live in a free society," said King County Proseutor Dan Satterberg. "There can be no mitigating circumstances, there should only be a prison cell and a life sentence."

The entire KING5 story here.

According to reporting by our News Partner The Seattle Times, the girl and her siblings were home alone while their mother worked.  Usually an uncle baby-sat but he had left early that night, and the mother was late coming home.

They said that Gonzales lived a block away but police do not know if he had been stalking the girl.

He entered the house through an unlocked front door and raped the girl multiple times before her mother returned home and scared him off.  He told police he had taken drugs and alcohol and was hallucinating.

The entire Seattle Times story here.