Man sentenced to 10 years probation after criminal sexual conduct guilty plea

Published 7:47 am Thursday, August 3, 2017

A man who pleaded guilty to felony fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct with a mentally impaired/helpless victim was sentenced in Mower County District Court on Wednesday.

Victorio Bautista-Cruz, 41

Victorio Bautista-Cruz, 41, of Austin was sentenced to a stayed prison term of two years. He must serve 10 years of probation, follow 34 conditions and pay $6,085 in fines. He received credit for 251 days served.

According to the court report, Austin police responded to a sexual assault complaint at 7:57 a.m. on Nov. 24 at the 800 block of Fifth Avenue Southwest. They found an emotional adult male saying he had been drinking, playing cards and listening to music with Bautista-Cruz and Julio Cesar Barboza-Rodriguez, 30, of Austin, when he blacked out and woke up to find one of the men on top of him sexually assaulting him while talking to the other man.

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The victim told police he had met Barboza-Rodriguez online and they met early the morning of Nov. 24. Barboza-Rodriguez made several sexual advances, which the victim told police he rebuffed.

They drank quite a bit. Bautista-Cruz joined the two later, and he was the one believed to have sexually assaulted the victim.

Bautista-Cruz and Barboza-Rodriguez began hitting the victim when he woke up and then fled the apartment. They left a pair of shoes and a sweatshirt at the residence, which cops saw later.

Police later found Bautista-Cruz and Barboza-Rodriguez outside a northwest Austin residence and arrested them. Both men gave police varying accounts of the ordeal.

Eventually, Barboza-Rodriguez told police he and the victim engaged in sexual activity, though the victim was drunk but awake.

He also told police the victim became upset when Bautista-Cruz got involved.

However, Bautista-Cruz told police he went to the residence to give Barboza-Rodriguez a ride and found many drinks and cigarettes around the residence.

Bautista-Cruz told police he was “just touching” the victim when he awoke, but he said Barboza-Rodriguez urged him to have sex with the victim, which he claimed he did not.

The victim was able to pick both men out of a police lineup.

Barboza-Rodriguez also pleaded guilty to felony fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct with a mentally impaired/helpless victim in March. He was sentenced to a stayed prison term of two years on May 5. He must serve 10 years of probation, follow 30 conditions and pay $6,085 in fines.