July 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Crime: Dateline Alabama: Kent Kafatia faces a mandatory eight years in prison on the rape conviction
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November 23, 2004: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Crime: Daily Nexus: Kent Kafatia faces two counts of rape and one count of burglary. Friends of Kent, a charity formed by Santa Barbara residents who were former Peace Corps volunteers in Africa, was financing Kafatia’s education. :
July 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Crime: Dateline Alabama: Kent Kafatia faces a mandatory eight years in prison on the rape conviction
Kent Kafatia faces a mandatory eight years in prison on the rape conviction
The Friends of Kent, a charity formed by Santa Barbara residents who were former Peace Corps volunteers in Africa, was financing Kafatia’s education. The charity was formed in January 2004 to raise funds for his tuition, fees and books.
Kent Kafatia faces a mandatory eight years in prison on the rape conviction
News briefs from California's Central Coast
By The Associated Press
July 06, 2005
Jurors convicted a former Santa Barbara City College security guard of felony rape and misdemeanor false imprisonment charges, but the panel was unable to reach verdicts on six other felony counts.
On the eighth day of deliberations Tuesday, the jury told Superior Court Judge Clifford Anderson they were deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction on six counts and the judge declared a mistrial. The judge gave prosecutors until July 14 to decide on a retrial.
Kent Kafatia, 22, faces a mandatory eight years in prison on the rape conviction.
In her closing arguments, Deputy District Attorney Mary Barron described Kafatia as a sexual predator targeting intoxicated young women he spotted walking home alone while he worked graveyard security shifts at the college.
Kafatia was convicted of raping a 20-year-old woman inside the security truck about 2 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2004, after offering her a ride to her apartment. In another incident, he was found guilty of misdemeanor false imprisonment for grabbing and detaining for several minutes a 21-year-old woman who was walking along a wooded path at the east edge of campus during the early morning hours of Oct. 31, 2004.
"I'm very disappointed (by the guilty verdicts) but also understand that it's really hard for jurors when a person is charged with so many counts," Deputy Public Defender Karen Atkins said Tuesday
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