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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Visalia antheral who was driving nether the power and sexually assaulted 1 of his passengers portion she was unconscious successful 2020 was sentenced, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.
The DA said Elijah Silva, 24, was sentenced connected April 18. He was convicted successful precocious March.
According to the DA, conscionable aft midnight connected Christmas Eve successful 2020, patrol officers saw a conveyance approaching astatine a precocious complaint of velocity connected Road 132. Radar indicated the conveyance was traveling 78 mph successful a 55 mph zone.
Officers, according to the DA, pursued the conveyance aft the operator failed to output astatine halt signs and reached speeds up to 125 mph.
It was reported that the car yet veered disconnected the roadworthy and struck a rod adjacent Avenue 384.
The DA said determination were 3 occupants successful the vehicle, including Silva, who was driving. The passengers, 1 antheral and 1 woman, did survive.
While the pistillate was connected the mode to the hospital, she told aesculapian unit that she believed that she had been sexually assaulted, according to the DA.
Medical unit administered a SART kit. According to the DA, during the investigation, it was established that the pistillate and her friends were drinking with Silva.
The DA said Silva had lone met her that nighttime but had aided her drinking by giving her shots and straight pouring alcoholic drinks successful her mouth. She past went to slumber successful her car and was awakened lone aft the crash.
In aboriginal 2022, the California Department of Justice confirmed that swabs obtained from the SART kit powerfully supported that Silva's sperm and DNA were contiguous successful the victim, the DA said.
Prior to the trial results, the DA said helium had pleaded blameworthy successful 2021 to evading an officer, DUI causing wounded and driving without a license. He was sentenced to a twelvemonth successful jailhouse and 3 years’ probation. While connected probation successful 2023, Silva was charged with misdemeanor artillery connected a important different and vandalism.
Silva was sentenced to the maximum aggravated word of 16 years successful situation for the 2020 intersexual battle of an unconscious woman. In summation to his sentence, Silva indispensable registry arsenic a enactment offender for life.
