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A Stafford man who repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

A county jury Wednesday recommended that 36-year-old Santiago Orellana serve four life sentences plus 10 years in prison.

Orellana, who will be formally sentenced by Judge Victoria Willis on May 13, was convicted of four counts of rape of a child and attempted rape following a two-day jury trial in Stafford Circuit Court that ended Wednesday night.

Because of the way prosecutor Ed Lustig charged the offenses, all of the rape convictions carried mandatory life sentences.

The jury also gave Orellana as much time as it could on the attempted rape conviction.

According to the evidence presented by Lustig, Orellana raped the girl at his home in Stafford during the summer of 2014 when she was 12. The girl testified that he tried to rape her again around Christmas of that same year.

The case came to light after Orellana’s wife placed a taping device in their bedroom because she suspected that he was cheating on her.

She heard evidence that Orellana had been with the girl and called the police.