> Reported By Dennis Ferrier
> POSTED: 4:40 pm CST February 15, 2008
>
> NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The first Mexican national ever extradited to
> Tennessee pleaded guilty to multiple rapes on Friday.
>
> Video: Man Pleads Guilty In Series Of Rapes
>
> Ruben Martinez was working as an undocumented worker, but he was also a
> rapist, and pleaded guilty in the rape of three women on Friday.
>
> He and another man accused in the attacks would break into single
> women's homes, then rape them for hours before leaving, police said. The
> crimes were reported in 1997 and 1998, according to the Federal Bureau
> of Investigation's Web site.
>
> Nashville police called him the most wanted man in the county for a time
> when the rapes were taking place.
>
> Kelly Quinn, who now lives in Las Vegas, was one of his victims.
>
> "Some of the things they did were so twisted. ... They held a plastic
> shotgun up to my head and had me on the floor and, 'Bang, bang,' and
> laughing. I can't even come up with other adjectives. Just animals," she
> said.
>
> Martinez fled the U.S. and hid in a tiny Mexican border village with his
> parents.
>
> He was later placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list and was caught the
> day after a $50,000 reward was placed on his capture, but it took four
> years to get him back to Nashville.
>
> "These victims have waited a very long time. And, we didn't know during
> that whole four-year process if ultimately the Mexican government would
> send him back. It wasn't a sure thing. We hoped," said Assistant
> District Attorney Lisa Naylor.
>
> Martinez was charged with 29 counts of rape and three counts of
> kidnapping and was accused of raping one woman while she was holding her
> baby.
>
> On Friday, he pleaded guilty to five counts of rape, which means he
> could serve somewhere between 15 and 125 years in prison.
>
> The degree of the rapes and the fact that he only quit because his wife
> turned him in will likely work against him in sentencing, officials
> said. He will be sentenced by Judge Steve Dozier.
>
> The three women he raped will be testifying against him in the
> sentencing hearing, which is set for April.
>
>
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