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Nicholas Rossi appeared in a Salt Lake City court, where he was sentenced to five years to life in prison for one of two rape convictions on Monday, Oct. 20

Rossi was accused of fleeing the United States after committing two separate rapes and faking his own death to evade the charges; he will be sentenced for the second guilty verdict in November

The man maintained his innocence, accusing the women of "lying" while in court

A Rhode Island man who faked his own death and fled to Scotland to avoid rape charges has been sentenced to at least five years in prison for one of two rape convictions.

Nicholas Rossi , 38, was sentenced in court for one of two convictions of the 2008 rapes of two women in northern Utah on Monday, Oct. 20. He was convicted separately in August and

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