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Man sentenced to 1 503 years for raping daughter

A 41-year-old California man was on Friday sentenced to 1 503 years in prison for raping his teenage daughter over a four-year period. Rene Lopez was found guilty of 186 felony counts of sexual assault and dozens of counts of rape of his daughter between 2009 and 2013 when the daughter got courage to leave him. The daughter was first sexually abused by a family friend. Lopez blamed his daughter for his predicament.

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