Man who sexually abused 7 boys at Southwest Key facility sentenced to 19 years in prison
A federal judge sentenced Levian Pacheco, who sexually abused several teenage boys at a shelter in Mesa for migrant youth, to 19 years in prison and a lifetime supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Arizona.
Pacheco, 25, is appealing the sentence to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Federal prosecutors alleged Pacheco touched the penis of six boys through their clothing and performed oral sex on two boys. Pacheco, who denied the allegations, also tried to have a boy penetrate him anally. The victims were between ages 15 and 17, and the abuse happened from August 2016 to July 2017 at a Southwest Key facility in Mesa licensed to serve 319 children. Pacheco was a youth care worker there.
He was arrested in August 2017.
A federal prosecutor told the court in a January 2018 hearing that Pacheco allegedly encouraged at least one victim to run away with him, and said he would take care him.
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The article did not mention that Pacheco is also HIV+.
(Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/levian-pache-hiv-positive-phoenix-southwest-key-shelter-worker-sexually-abused-8-teen-immigrant-boys-authorities-say-propublica/ )
