August 30, 2005: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Crime: Dateline Alabama: Kent Kafatia sentenced to eight years in prison
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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. :
August 30, 2005: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Crime: Dateline Alabama: Kent Kafatia sentenced to eight years in prison
Kent Kafatia sentenced to eight years in prison
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 sentenced to eight years in prison
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - A former security guard at Santa Barbara City College was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a woman in a 2004 attack that terrorized the campus.
Kent Kafatia, 22, was convicted by jurors in July for the rape of a 20-year-old woman in November 2004. Jurors narrowly deadlocked on six other felony counts, including the attempted rapes of two other women.
Kafatia was sentenced Monday. Deputy District Attorney Mary Barron said prosecutors wouldn't seek a retrial on the deadlocked counts.
"Given the totality of the potential additional sentence, the fact that he was sentenced to the upper term for the rape charge and what an additional trial would have put the victims through, I felt justice was served with an eight-year sentence," Barron said.
Kafatia insisted the sex was consensual and Deputy Public Defender Karen Atkins said the woman was too intoxicated to remember.
Kafatia began working as a part-time security guard while he was a student at the college and he continued to work for the college after he transferring to University of California, Santa Barbara. He was arrested in November 2004.
The arrest had some female students concerned about campus safety, saying they were nervous about calling a security guard to escort them around campus. Many women began walking around the campus in groups.
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