A 26-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he was convicted of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl, a Florida judge ruled. Rony Otoniel Mendez learned his fate Wednesday after a Polk County jury found him guilty of three counts of sexual battery on a child under 12 and one count of lewd and lascivious molestation on a child. His sentence does not include the option of parole, the Lakeland Ledger reported. Mendez was accused of having sexually abused the child at least three times, beginning when she was just 9 years old in late 2013, authorities said.

Source: Huffington Post January 16, 2017 16:45 UTC