32 years in prison for Forest City man on sexual abuse, child endangerment charges
FOREST CITY — A Forest City man has been sentenced to over 32 years in prison after being accused of harboring a runaway, sexual abuse, and drug crimes.
21-year-old Angel Gonzalez Rentas was arrested in late September after an investigation. A criminal complaint states that between August 30th and September 27th of this year, Rentas would allow underage females to enter the back room of a Forest City fast food restaurant, providing them with alcohol and marijuana. Rentas also is accused of having sex with two girls under the age of 16, sheltered a 15-year-old girl who was a runaway who he described as his girlfriend, and physically assaulted two others.
Rentas was originally charged with two counts of third-degree sexual abuse, distribution of marijuana to a minor, harboring a runaway, a first offense sex offender registry violation, six counts of unsupervised access to a minor by a person required to register, supplying alcohol to a minor, and two counts of assault causing bodily injury.
Rentas in December entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to two counts of third-degree sexual abuse, two counts of child endangerment as a registered sex offender, and one count of failure to comply with sex offender registry requirements.
District Judge DeDra Schroeder sentenced Rentas to ten years each on the sexual abuse charges, five years each on the child endangerment charges, and two years on the sex offender registry charge, with all the sentences to be served consecutively.
Schroeder also revoked his probation in a separate case of assault with the intent to commit sexual abuse where he was sentenced to 365 days in jail with 245 of the days suspended. Schroder says Rentas must now serve that 245 days.
