WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to raping a teenage girl on multiple occasions, authorities say.
Christopher Coll, 39, of Worcester, was sentenced Tuesday in Worcester Superior Court, The Telegram & Gazette reported.
The investigation started in March 2016 when a police officer in Shrewsbury spotted the man and the then 15-year-old victim inside a car near a boat ramp. Prosecutors investigating the case found a video of one of the sexual assaults that Coll had recorded.
Assistant District Attorney Courtney Sans and Judge David Ricciardone acknowledged the sentence could be seen as light given the facts of the case, but it was important to spare the victim the trauma of a trial.
Coll pleaded guilty to five counts of child rape aggravated by a 10-year-plus age difference, posing/exhibiting a child in a sexual act and four counts of assault and battery on a person age 14 or older. He faces five years of probation after completing his prison tem and must register as a sex offender.
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