Sifuentes could be deported after jail

A man who had sex with a runaway teenage girl will serve 90 days in jail and then face deportation back to Mexico.

The defendant, Alvaro Fraire Sifuentes, 22, entered a guilty plea last week before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to the charge of statutory rape. He was ordered to serve 90 days of a two-year sentence, with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) placing a hold on him for possible deportation back to Mexico once his debt to society is paid here in Warren County. Re-entering the country without documentation after being deported is considered a felony, punishable by five years in prison.

The charges were brought late last year when a deputy literally found the 15-year-old runaway in Sifuentes? bed as he was searching for the missing girl at a local trailer park. The deputy testified during a preliminary hearing that he was tipped as to the girl?s location and went to the suspect?s door.

When the suspect answered, the deputy said he showed him a picture of the girl but Sifuentes did not reveal she was inside his home. Instead, Sifuentes admitted he was not alone in the house when asked and allowed the officer to come inside where he found the girl still in the suspect?s bed.

During a further investigation, both Sifuentes and the girl reportedly admitted having sex together; however, the suspect maintained he had been led to believe the girl was older than 15.

In addition to the sex charge, Sifuentes had faced criminal impersonation charges for giving the officer a false name. Lawmen learned his true name by looking back on his past booking sheets where they also determined he was on probation for lying to police about his name on a prior occasion. The criminal impersonation was dropped as part of the plea agreement.