KAILUA-KONA — An 18-year-old Kona teen will serve at least 11 years in prison for the 2016 rape of a woman at Old Kona Airport Park.
Tyron Sigrah pleaded guilty in 3rd Circuit Court on charges of first-degree sexual assault, second-degree assault, kidnapping and second-degree robbery. The teen was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in September.
On Friday the Department of Public Safety released that the Hawaii Paroling Authority set Sigrah’s term limit at 11 years for first-degree sexual assault kidnapping, six years for second-degree robbery and three and half years for second-degree assault. The sentences are to be served concurrently.
The 18-year-old will be eligible for parole after 11 years.
Deputy Prosecutor Sheri Lawson said the state has always felt a concurrent sentence was appropriate because of his age.
However, “the state felt 20 years maximum sentence was an appropriate sentence,” she added.
On Friday, the victim in the assault said she was a little shocked at the term setting.
“I would’ve thought he would’ve got closer to the max,” the woman said, adding “but I’m not surprised. Other people would just think of him as a minor.”
It is not West Hawaii Today’s policy to release the names of sexual assault victims without their permission.
Sigrah is one of two teens involved in the assault and rape of the woman on Sept. 3, 2016, on a soccer field at the county park, just north of the Kona Community Aquatics Center. Sigrah and Samuel Latrik were minors at the time of the incident.
Samuel Latrik pleaded guilty on Nov. 29 mid-trial after the victim took the stand and testified about the night of the assault.
He pleaded guilty as charged to five of the eight charges lodged against him by the Hawaii County Prosecutor’s Office.
Latrik, 19, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in 3rd Circuit Court before Judge Robert D.S. Kim.
