SALT LAKE CITY — Months after being convicted on rape charges, ex-fugitive Nicholas Rossi is set to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom on Monday.

The sentence, which is scheduled for 2 p.m., will bring an end to one chapter of a lengthy saga in which Rossi fled the country to avoid prosecution for the 2008 rape , while also making unsubstantiated claims that he was a different person entirely.

Rossi was found guilty by a jury on the third day of his August trial.

During the trial, the victim described meeting Rossi as she was recovering from a brain injury, and that it was a whirlwind relationship with their first date coming on her birthday.

"He was very charming and seemed very interested in school and politics and music, and he was just very nice to me," the victim told

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