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Nicholas Rossi, 38, who spent years in Europe to evade prosecution, was convicted Wednesday of a 2008 rape in Orem, Utah, prosecutors said

Rossi fled to Scotland in 2017 and faked his own death in 2020, according to authorities

He is awaiting trial on another alleged rape charge in Utah County in September

A Rhode Island man accused of fleeing to Scotland and faking his own death to evade rape charges has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in Utah in 2008, according to the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office.

On Wednesday, Aug. 13, after a three-day trial, a jury found Nicholas Edward Rossi guilty of first-degree felony rape, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced in a statement.

Rossi, 38, a Rhode Island native whose lega

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