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William Piol Makuei, 60, was sentenced to 25 years to life for raping a child.

He impregnated a 13-year-old girl in 2015, but wasn't convicted until almost a decade later.

DNA evidence from the newborn baby linked Makuei to the crime.

SALT LAKE CITY — A 60-year-old man convicted of impregnating a 13-year-old girl a decade ago has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

In January 2017, William Piol Makuei, of Salt Lake City, was charged with two counts of rape of a child, a first-degree felony. More than eight years later, on Sept. 3, he was convicted of one count of child rape by a 3rd District Court jury.

"After lengthy legal proceedings and multiple attempts by Makuei to delay the trial, the September 2025 trial lasted one day and ended with Makuei's convicti

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