A 54-year-old man from Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to molesting a disabled woman in Fall River, and is accused of abusing her family.

Fernando Rodriguez was sentenced Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River on charges of rape and indecent assault and battery on a person with an intellectual disability in connection with a 2015 attack, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s office.

He was sentenced to serve six to nine years in the state prison followed by three years of supervised probation.

According to the DA’s office, the female victim and her family came to know Rodriguez while living in Puerto Rico, where he abused the victim's mother and all of her four children, both physically and sexually.

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