George Norris Langu Jr., a 19-year-old accused of breaking into a house and raping his 16-year-old neighbor on Saipan last September, entered a guilty plea yesterday in the Superior Court. <\/p>\n
Langu signed a plea agreement with the government and pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the first degree.<\/p>\n
Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio accepted the plea deal and Langu\u2019s guilty plea.<\/p>\n
Kim-Tenorio set the sentencing for March 8, 2016 at 9am.<\/p>\n
Assistant public defender Matthew Meyer is counsel for Langu. <\/p>\n
Assistant attorney general Barbara Cepeda appeared for the government. <\/p>\n
Aside from sexual assault in the first degree, the Office of the Attorney General charged the defendant with burglary, assault and battery, disturbing the peace, and criminal mischief. <\/p>\n
Two police officers responded last Sept. 1 at 3:57am to a call about a sexual assault incident in Chalan Kanoa. <\/p>\n
The alleged victim told police that she was asleep inside her room when a man sexually assaulted her. The girl said she struggled, prompting the suspect she later recognized as Langu, to run outside the house. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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