Warren man pleads guilty to raping autistic boy

WARREN — Gary Kachenko, 56, of Phillips Drive Southwest told a Trumbull County judge he would be OK with “lethal injection,” meaning the death penalty as punishment after pleading guilty to raping a 13-year-old autistic boy multiple times.

He was advised that was not one of the possible penalties for his crimes.

Kachenko pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts of rape and four counts of gross sexual imposition involving the boy.

Judge Andrew Logan asked Kachenko to acknowledge that he had been offered a 25-year prison sentence by prosecutors, and Kachenko agreed.

Judge Logan noted that Kachenko could get as many as 95 years in prison when he is sentenced in about four weeks after the county’s Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation.