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Turlock man prison bound for torture
Defendant repeatedly abused victim, kept her locked in dog crate
Guerra Frank
Frank Guerra IV
The Turlock man who kept his girlfriend locked in a dog crate for hours at a time will be spending the next 10 years in a cage of his own making. On Thursday Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Scott Steffen sentenced Frank Guerra IV, 22, to eight years for felony kidnapping and a year each for battery causing serious bodily injury, and battery on a spouse or cohabitant, for a total of 10 years. Guerra will have to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence and was given two strikes under California’s Three Strikes law.