By Jesse Dungan
Daily News Staff Writer
10/19/2010
Roberto Recendes faces a 17-year prison sentence after pleading guilty last week to raping and beating a 94-year-old woman at the Palo Alto Commons nursing home in 2002.
Recendes, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual penetration by force, one count of elder abuse and to an enhancement of inflicting great bodily injury, said Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Amy Cornell.
Prosecutors plan to drop a second enhancement -- committing the crimes during the commission of burglary -- when Recendes is sentenced in December.
He could have faced up to 25 years to life in jail if he had been convicted of all the charges and enhancements.
Recendes is expected to be sentenced to 17 years in prison on Dec. 9.
Abridged
SOURCE: Mercury News
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