It took a Schuylkill County jury less than a half-hour to find a Shenandoah man guilty of repeatedly raping and impregnating a 12-year-old child.

Hector Rico, 34, will be sentenced on Sept. 2, after Judge Jacqueline L. Russell reviews a presentence investigation and a sexual offender evaluation.After listening to two days of testimony, the jury on Friday found Rico guilty of four counts each of rape of a child and another sex-related crime and one each of corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children.Rico had been charged by Shenandoah police in March 2015 with 32 crimes, including felony charges of rape of a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, sexual assault, incest, indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old, statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors.The child's mother contacted police after learning the girl was eight months pregnant. Rico, in the county prison on $250,000 cash bail, accused the girl of sexually assaulting him as he slept.According to court documents, after the girl took a pregnancy test that showed a positive result, she told her mother that Rico had assaulted her over several months.The mother called police, who told her to take the child to the hospital emergency room. There, it was revealed she was 32 weeks pregnant.Police also called Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services.A short time later, Massachusetts police called Shenandoah police to report that a man had called an agency there to try to get an abortion for his 12-year-old girlfriend. A social worker took his information and contacted police.The girl told the worker that Rico had begun sexually assaulting her twice a week several months earlier. She said Rico ignored her pleas to stop, and that he told her not to tell anyone, that it was their secret. The child said when she told Rico her stomach hurt and that she had not had her menstrual cycle for a long time, he bought a pregnancy test.The girl told the worker that when the test turned out positive, Rico acted surprised, and began to come up with lies and excuses to tell the girl's family. His initial plan was to have the child tell her mother that she was impregnated by a boy she met at a birthday party in New York City.Then, the girl said, he began calling people about abortions.The child told the worker that Rico told her mother that the sexual contact was an accident that happened in the shower, claiming he didn't do it on purpose.The girl told the worker she has never had a boyfriend.Police interviewed Rico, who told them the child sexually assaulted him while he was sleeping. She was stronger than he, Rico told police, and he could not get her to stop.In a second interview, Rico told police he "wants to pay for what he did."He then went on to describe what he said were consensual sexual relations with the child on three occasions. He admitted to telling the child to make up a story about how she became pregnant.