10-years for taxi passenger rape

A taxi driver who raped and made pregnant a 14-year-old passenger was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Thursday, May 10 and will never be allowed to drive again.

The victim, identified only by the initials K.L.G.G.   boarded a taxi driven by the defendant Orlando Rodríguez Peñalba who took her to a remote location near La Joya prison, east of Panama City in October 2016, and forced her into the back seat of the car and raped her. She became pregnant