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Virgin Mary Art Stolen to Fund Abortion

By TIMBERLY ROSS
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posted: 3 HOURS 49 MINUTES AGO
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OMAHA, Neb. (Aug. 22) - A Nebraska man who stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a teen he raped has been convicted of first-degree sexual assault and felony theft.
Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39, of Omaha pleaded no contest to the charges Friday and faces up to 70 years in prison when sentenced in October, Douglas County prosecutor Brenda Beadle said Saturday.
A call to the county public defender representing Vallerillo-Sanchez wasn't answered Saturday.
Beadle said Vallerillo-Sanchez fled to Mexico with the 300-year-old painting worth $100,000 and the pregnant teen in March 2007.
"The plan was that when they got to Mexico, she was to undergo an abortion," she said.
When an abortion wasn't possible, Vallerillo-Sanchez pushed to have the baby given up for adoption, Beadle said: "He wanted to do everything he could to get rid of this baby 'cause it was evidence against him."
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The teen returned to Nebraska after giving birth, the prosecutor said.
Vallerillo-Sanchez was arrested in February after DNA linked him to the September 2006 assault of the then-14-year-old girl.
His children gave police information about the theft during the investigation into the sexual assault. His son told police he served as a lookout as his father stole the painting from St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha. Vallerillo-Sanchez sold the painting for $3,000 in Mexico, his daughter told police.
Vallerillo-Sanchez has been linked to at least four other thefts in the Omaha area, but charges were not filed as part of a plea deal, Beadle said.
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Bbrockp

06:45 PMAug 22 2009

No-one can fix the crap Obummer is tossing at us now.

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Dogdiogenes7

06:45 PMAug 22 2009

Wasn't Mary once in bad need of an abortion? I mean, look at all the trouble she went through trying to save her reputation. What's the official story? Miracle?!?! It's a great irony that her son would later say, "The truth shall set you free." Mary got through it all by telling some real whoppers! Sometimes, the BS will set you free, I guess.... Why should she be such a venerated figure in art? One less painting with a dopey theme, I say...

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DnCarm6

06:41 PMAug 22 2009

fishonjohnson --- I'm not even going to go into what your screenname implies! You are proud of Bush for doing what? Sending the entire country into a downward uncontrollable spiral while raking in his oil money for himself? Creating an economic catastrophe that will take years, even decades for ANY president now or in the future to dig us out of? Or something else? No one can fix the cr@p he tossed out for 8 years in a few months.

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newsSwat

06:39 PMAug 22 2009

Avice728 06:06 PMAug 22 2009 newsSwat: Avice728, I hope you are jokeing...... Otherwise you're the biggest retard going.---------------------------------I'm smarter than anyone you know. I can even spell joking.===========I had a substandard education, but I doubt you're smarter than me, or some of the people I know.

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Tmyqtbug2

06:27 PMAug 22 2009

I know the price of things are going up, but did this guy have any idea how much an abortion costs, it sure in the hell isn't $100,000, and a 300-year-old painting should cost more then $100,000, he deserves to go to jail for being a pervert and an idiot

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DUEY35

06:26 PMAug 22 2009

Freakin wetbacks

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Fishonjohnson

06:25 PMAug 22 2009

I didn't vote for bush but I'm proud he was my president, can't say that with this president, I'll be glad when he's gone If he hasn't change the laws by then ! What a freakin joke this Obama is! What a joke the people who voted for him are! :p

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Ouramel24

06:17 PMAug 22 2009

Hope you're buying the AOL liberal spin on this story. First of all, the abortion, thanks to the liberal Dem's is free. Secondly, the money was most likely huss money to the kid. Other words, we are to believe this pervert is honest enough to pay a bill with the money...It's lib media just trying to tell us how desparate the people need legal access to abortion....give me a break!

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A Nebraska man who stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a teen he raped has been convicted of first-degree sexual assault and felony theft.