A Batavia man who admitted to taking a 14-year-old Byron girl to Pennsylvania on November 29, 2018, causing an Amber Alert and manhunt, has pleaded guilty to rape 2nd, a class D violent felony, in satisfaction of a 13 count indictment.
Guillermo Torres-Acevedo, 23, abducted the teen that morning near Byron-Bergen high school. Torres-Acevedo and the 14 year old girl were found later that afternoon by police in a Mansfield, Pennsylvania Walmart parking lot.
On Friday afternoon in Genesee County Court, Torres-Acevedo pleaded guilty to count 4 in the indictment, and admitted that he engaged in sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 15 sometime between November 25th and 26th, 2018 in the Town of Batavia.
On December 4, 2019, Torres-Acevedo pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to enticing a minor to travel to engage in criminal sexual activity. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
He is facing a maximum determinate sentence of 6 years with 10 years post release supervision when he is sentenced on the rape 2nd charge on February 18, 2019 at 1:30p.m.
Torres-Acevedo will first be sentenced in Federal Court on February 13, 2019.