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Boyfriend Gets Triple Life Sentences for Molesting Roswell Girlfriend's Teen Daughter

Edrick Amilcar was convicted of multiple charges of sexual abuse and violence on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Edrick Amilcar, 40, of Atlanta, was convicted of rape, two counts of aggravated child molestation, child molestation aggravated assault and two counts of family violence battery for the on-going sexual abuse of his former girlfriend's teenage daughter in Roswell. 

Amilcar was convicted of abusing the then 15-year-old during the summer of 2007 when he told her it was time for her to learn about sex first-hand and emphasized she should learn with him instead of with young boys outside of the home. The defendant, who had a history of physically abusing the girl’s mother and younger sister, forced the girl to perform various sex acts on and with him. Amilcar threatened further harm to the family if she told of the sexual abuse.

Finally, in October 2007, the victim told an aunt of the on-going sexual abuse after the woman had come to help the family get away from Amilcar. He was arrested days later by the Roswell Police Department after medical examinations of the victim and DNA evidence linked him to the crimes against her following an investigation led by Roswell Detective Sylvia Browning.

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Once the guilty verdicts were leveled against him, Amilcar received three life sentences plus forty-two years all to run concurrently for his crimes.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly Amanda Lee presided over the case, which was prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Melissa Redmon of the Crimes Against Women and Children Unit with assistance from ADA JaDawnya Butler and DA Investigator Cindy Williamson.

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