{"id":187449,"date":"2026-05-08T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187449\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:40:06","slug":"scranton-man-convicted-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187449\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man convicted of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jury convicted Mario Valentine of the rape of a mentally disabled person and related charges.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 It took less than two hours for a jury to find a Scranton man guilty of rape.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Mario Valentine, 40, sexually assaulted an 18-year-old mentally disabled woman in January of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Following a four-day jury trial, Valentine was convicted of rape of a mentally disabled person, aggravated indecent assault of a person suffering a mental disability, and indecent assault of a person suffering a mental disability.<\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 35 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jury convicted Mario Valentine of the rape of a mentally disabled person and related charges. SCRANTON, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-187449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}