Howarth Park Rapist Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

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A Santa Rosa man convicted of raping a woman in Howarth Park has received a 25-years-to-life prison sentence. 25 Year old Rusiate Waqa was given the sentence on Thursday after being convicted of forcible rape and aggravated kidnapping by a Jury in July. The attack came in August of 2019 when the woman coming out of a bathroom at the park was grabbed by the man and forced back inside where he assaulted her. After he fled, the woman provided police with a license plate number which led to Waqa. After a DNA match to genetic material at the scene, Waqa was arrested.