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Nicholas Rossi was sentenced Tuesday to a second term of five years to life in prison for a Utah County rape.

He was previously convicted in Salt Lake County of a separate 2008 rape.

Rossi says he plans to appeal; victims expressed ongoing fear and emotional trauma.

PROVO — A man convicted of raping women in both Salt Lake and Utah counties in 2008 before faking his death, fleeing the country and assuming a new identity was sentenced Tuesday to a term of five years to life in prison.

A judge ordered that his sentence be served consecutive to an identical sentence he was given for a separate rape.

Nicholas Edward Rossi, 38, was found guilty of rape by a jury in the 4th District Court in September for the rape of a 21-year-old woman in

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