A Wichita man who was sentenced to life in prison for a kidnapping and sexual assault case in 2023 has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term for a similar case from 2018.
A Sedgwick County district judge sentenced 31-year-old Gerardo Aguero-Hernandez to 1,367 months in prison, almost 114 years, for an incident that happened in July of 2018. A woman in her 50s was forced into a car while she was walking home from a gas station. A jury returned a guilty verdict in that case last June.
The judge ordered the sentence to run consecutively to a sentence that Aguero-Hernandez is already serving for an incident in May, 2020. In that case, a girl who had run away from a foster home was walking along Broadway when she was offered a ride, but was taken to where she was sexually assaulted. The girl escaped and found someone who called police. Aguero-Hernandez was given life with no parole for 25 years for convictions of aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated battery, along with an additional 184 months.
Between the two cases, Aguero-Hernandez will serve 25 plus 15 years followed by 1,367 months, for a total of almost 153 years.
