{"id":283916,"date":"2026-09-11T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283916\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:22:11","slug":"scranton-man-sentenced-for-rape-of-mentally-disabled-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283916\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man sentenced for rape of mentally disabled woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man will spend years behind bars for the rape of a mentally disabled woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities say Mario Valentine sexually assaulted an 18-year-old mentally disabled woman in January of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Valentine <a data-ylk=\"slk:was convicted back in May;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/scranton-man-convicted-of-rape-lackawanna-county\/523-ede35e42-679e-43ce-80b0-55974a2e2148\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was convicted back in May<\/a> 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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was sentenced Thursday to 13 to 27 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man will spend years behind bars for the rape of a mentally disabled woman. Authorities say Mario&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118403,22462,118404,118402,118401,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-283916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-disabled-person","tag-indecent-assault","tag-mario-valentine","tag-mental-disability","tag-mentally-disabled","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283916","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=283916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}