A man who the District Attorney's Office claims is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for raping his girlfriend's teenage daughter.
Rodney Wayne Price, 43, could spend up to the rest of his life on parole as a registered sex offender after he is released from prison.
The sentence, handed down by 3rd Judicial District Court Judge Fernando Macias, was filed Tuesday.
The 15-year-old victim told her mother of the attack, but her mother refused to believe her and insisted the girl was lying so she could break up the couple, said senior trial prosecutor Michelle Pickett.
It wasn't until the girl returned to O-ate High School and confided in the school's resource officer that Las Cruces police were called and a subsequent sexual assault examination found the man's semen inside the girl.
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