Victor Peña was found guilty of all charges against him last week.

				 Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe

The man convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman over three days in Boston in 2019 was sentenced to 29 to 39 years in prison Monday in Suffolk Superior Court. Last week, a jury convicted Victor Peña, 42, of kidnapping and 10 counts of rape he was facing. The kidnapping charge could have earned him 25 years, while each rape charge could have resulted in 30 years in prison. Prosecutors asked for a stiff sentence on the manslaughter charge, arguing that kidnapping and rape “really kills someone,” according to courtroom reporters. Judge Anthony Campo reportedly cited the wealth of video and photo evidence in the case and said the impact of the crimes was soul-stealing. The victim, he said, showed remarkable courage. Authorities said Peña kidnapped the woman, now 27, after she left Hennessy’s in January 2019, holding her captive in his Charlestown apartment where he repeatedly raped her over the course of three days before police broke down the door. and saved her. For sentencing, the woman submitted a victim impact statement, but it was not read aloud in court, according to courtroom reporters. The woman, who was 23 at the time of the incident, testified that the last thing she remembered the night of her abduction was feeling upset while dancing at the Boston bar with her sister and friends. The next thing she remembered was waking up naked the next morning in Peña’s apartment. She said she tried to escape twice while he slept, but both times he woke up and caught her before she could reach the door, which was locked by a bolt that required a key from the inside. She told jurors that Peña threatened to kill her and eventually stopped fighting back against his sexual assaults because she “didn’t want to die.” Peña had pleaded not guilty to the charges. In his own testimony, he said he was trying to help the woman, insisted he was not holding her captive and said she wanted to “have relations” with him. He has been held without bail since his arrest in 2019.

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