Man sentenced to 38 years in prison for 1991 Albuquerque rape case

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man learned how long he will spend behind bars Wednesday afternoon for raping a woman in the 1990s.

During the sentencing for 52-year-old Brian Rascon, a judge called the case a tragedy, saying that while Rascon has turned his life around, there has to be punishment for the crime.

“He is not the same person he was when he was 18 years old,” Brian Rascon’s daughter pleaded with a judge to give her father a lighter sentence after a jury found him guilty of a rape that happened more than three decades ago…

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