Dough-faced and bespectacled, a stay-at-home mother of five children, she might have seemed like the perfect candidate to babysit a neighborhood child for the afternoon. Now, that woman has been sentenced to 120 years in prison for sexually assaulting more than 20 children, many of whom she was babysitting, and recording the attacks.
“Sarah Almaguer was a willing participant in an evil that is unimaginable,” said Assistant District Attorney Fred Burns, in his closing arguments during a sentencing hearing for Almaguer, who already had pleaded guilty to raping two infants in 2017.
“All those children were given to Sarah Almaguer because the families trusted her. She was a mother and a woman and no one could ever contemplate a woman doing these things. But she did, over and over and over again.”
Burns asked the district court judge to impose a life sentence on top of the 60 years already doled out by a federal judge in 2019, on child pornography charges. However, Almaguer’s defense attorney argued that 20-25 years in prison would be appropriate because of her childhood trauma and because she was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
“In her presentence investigation report, she reflects about the abuse by Christopher Almaguer (her husband and co-defendant),” said Michael Magana, during his closing arguments on Friday.
“She also is the victim of sexual abuse from her father, brother and neighbors. She was born into this. If this unfortunate cycle isn’t broken, it continues.”
Ultimately, Judge Paul LePak sentenced 31-year-old Sarah Almaguer to 60 years in prison. She pleaded guilty on Feb. 24, to two first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Before making his decision, LePak heard testimony from a detective, arguments from attorneys, and he watched three short videos that depicted Sarah Almaguer sexually assaulting three children. The state entered a total of 32 videos and images of the Almaguer’s child pornography into evidence.
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