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OMAHA — A Nebraska man who stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a teen he raped has been convicted of first- degree sexual assault and felony theft.

Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39, of Omaha pleaded no contest to the charges Friday and faces up to 70 years in prison when sentenced in October, Douglas County prosecutor Brenda Beadle said Saturday.

Beadle said Vallerillo- Sanchez fled to Mexico with the 300-year-old painting, worth $100,000, and the pregnant teen in March 2007, planning to get her an abortion. When an abortion wasn’t possible, Vallerillo-Sanchez pushed to have the baby given up for adoption, Beadle said: “He wanted to do everything he could to get rid of this baby cause it was evidence against him.”