Army Recruit Faced Life in Prison for Raping Sibling. He Is Sentenced to Probation, No Adjudication, No Sex Offender Status.
A Palm Coast soldier indicted for raping his 10-year-old brother when he was himself 13 avoided prison after a negotiated plea deal that reduced the life-in-prison charge to child abuse, following requests from the family. Circuit Judge Howard Maltz sentenced the defendant to 10…
Last Nov. 7, a Flagler County grand jury indicted 22-year-old Giovanni Gabriel Curtis , a Palm Coast resident, on a rape charge involving a child younger than 12. The offense occurred in Palm Coast when Curtis was 13 and the victim was 10. The victim was his younger brother. He similarly victimized one other sibling, but not in Flagler County, so he was not charged for those offenses.
Curtis, a diesel technician in the U.S. Army, was initially jailed where he was based in El Paso, Texas. He was booked at the Flagler County jail last Dec. 5 on no bond. …
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