In July, a jury convicted Villalpandoβa former St. Joseph High School studentβof three felony counts of unlawful sex with a minor.
The jury hung 11 to 1 on whether he raped the thenyear-old girl while she was intoxicated. As part of a plea deal, Villalpando agreed to an additional count of unlawful sex with a minor from a separate case involving another girl.
They had to leave Saint Joseph High School due to the harassment and bullying they endured. They had to move out of the area. They started as rape victims, and ended as rape survivors. One of those survivors is Delaney Henderson, whose case resulted in the additional count added against Villalpando in the plea deal.
She described to policeβand later testified in courtβabout what happened to her the first night of her summer vacation back in June She also talked to the Sun about what happened, and this is her story:. To celebrate the end of school, Delaney and a friend drove to the beach, where they met up with Villalpando and some other guys. The girls hung out for a while, and then Villalpando and another boy showed up.
They all sat on the couch for a while, watching movies and smoking pot. Then they decided to go in the Jacuzzi. She remembers hearing from her bedroom window her girlfriends talking in the driveway. Then she heard footsteps outside of her bedroom door. She said Villalpando and the other boy entered her bedroom, closed the door, and locked it. She testified in court that Villalpando and the other boy came to her bed, raped her, and then left the room.
