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OGDEN — A 24-year-old will spend at least five years in prison for raping a teenager he met through social media in 2020.
Second District Judge Camille Neider sentenced Cesar Adrian Alvarez, of Ogden, to a term of five years to life in prison on May 19 with credit for time served.
Alvarez pleaded guilty to rape, a first-degree felony, on March 30 as part of a plea deal. Prosecutors agreed to recommend that he serve a year in jail instead of prison time, but Neider determined that the prison sentence was more appropriate.
Police say the victim was 16 when she met Alvarez, then age 21, through social media and communicated with him for several months.
Sometime in mid-June 2020, the victim was watching a movie with Alvarez at his house in Ogden "when the defendant started kissing her and proceeded to remove her clothing, ripping her underwear," a police booking affidavit states.
The victim said she told Alvarez, "No, no, no. … I don't want to," but Alvarez continued to have sex with her without her consent.
In deciding to send him to prison, Neider emphasized that her priority is keeping Alvarez off the streets not because she thinks he is "broken," but because she wants to prevent the potential of there being "another victim in the community."
Neider said she will push for Alvarez to receive sex offender therapy as part of his sentence.
Alvarez this month also pleaded guilty in a separate case to unlawful sexual conduct with a 16- or 17-year-old, a third-degree felony. Sentencing in that case is scheduled for June.
