A 24-year-old Thornton man who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a violent sexual assault in an Aurora alleyway was sentenced to 70 years in prison last week.

Jerricho Joseph Esquivel pleaded guilty to attempted murder and kidnapping after police say he sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint while she was on her way to work on Nov. 21, 2022.

The woman told police she had been dropped off by her husband and was on her way to work cleaning houses when Esquivel approached her with a gun, grabbed her jacket and forced her behind a dumpster, where he pistol-whipped her and sexually assaulted her, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Esquivel tried to fire the gun at one point, but it did not go off, and the woman was able to release the gun’s magazine, fight Es

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