Terren Raphael

Terren Michael Raphael, 24, 2441 W 250S, Warsaw, received a 15-year sentence for molesting an 11-year-old on several occasions in 2008 and 2009. Raphael was sentenced in Kosciusko County Superior Court 1.

Judge David Cates accepted Raphael’s plea agreement, filed on Jan. 29, earlier this week. That agreement stated Raphael would plead guilty to count one, child molesting a class B felony with the second count of child molesting being dismissed. The agreement also stipulated he could be sentenced within the statutory parameters of a B felony, with the balance being suspended and served on formal probation.

Cates sentenced Raphael to a total of 15 years. He will serve 10 years at the Indiana Department of Corrections and the remaining five years on probation. He was given two days jail time credit. He is required to register as a sex offender and ordered to have no direct contact with the victim or the victim’s mother.

Filed on June 12, 2014, the affidavit of probable cause states a school counselor was advised by a female, who was 16 at that time, she had been sexually molested by Raphael in 2009. The young female told a caseworker, with child protective services, that between July 2009 and September 2009, when she was 11, the molestation took place. Raphael was an acquaintance and living at the same location as she, her mother and her sister.

Authorities were told, by the victim, he would come into her bedroom and have sexual and oral intercourse with her and would touch her inappropriately. The activity occurred approximately 50 times during that time and at one point he had a knife in his hand and told her if she told anyone she would not like what happened. On one instance the victime stated her sister walked into the bedroom while the Raphael was having sexual intercourse with her.

The victim’s sister told authorities she saw her sister pinned down on the bed on that occasion and she believed Raphael was having sexual intercourse with her sister.

Raphael however, told officials only oral sex was performed and the sexual activity occurred approximately five times.