ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — A serial rapist who pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping charges was sentenced Thursday to 70 years in prison.

Jerricho Joseph Esquivel, 24, will spend the rest of his life behind bars in connection with a violent sexual assault and kidnapping that happened in Aurora in 2022.

The crime, which was reported on Nov. 21, 2022 , involved a woman who reported to police that she had been sexually assaulted in an alleyway behind an apartment complex.

The woman told investigators she had been dropped off by her husband and was walking to work cleaning houses in the area when she was approached by Esquivel. The victim told police he pulled out a gun, grabbed her by her jacket, and forced her behind a dumpster where he pistol-whipp

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