PLYMOUTH, Mass. —

A migrant convicted last month of raping a teenage girl at a Massachusetts hotel while it was being used as a migrant shelter last year will spend at least the next decade in prison, a judge said Friday.

Cory Alvarez, 27, was convicted of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference by a Plymouth County jury in September.

The state's minimum sentence on the charge is 10 years, but the prosecutor asked for 15 to 18 years, citing brazen circumstances, including that National Guardsmen were present at the property as the rape occurred. The defense attorney, however, asked for a stay while his client's appeals are pending arguing he did not get a fair trial.

The judge sentenced Alvarez to 10 to 12 years at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, with credit for

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