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Robert Maldonado, 40, was on probation after serving time for a rape in 2000
Police say he raped a 69-year-old woman while on probation in 2016
Monday, a judge handed him a life sentence for violating his probation after a GPS monitoring device went off after 10pm, when he should have been home
Maldonado was in the middle of the crime, when the woman who he allegedly raped said she heard repeated beeping
The GPS device going off helped detectives pin point where he was & arrest him

Published: 13:25 EDT, 19 June 2018 | Updated: 14:16 EDT, 19 June 2018

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Robert Maldonado completed his prison sentence for a previous rape, when he allegedly raped a 69-year-old woman while he was on probation

Robert Maldonado, a Florida sex offender who was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor, allegedly raped a 69-year-old woman, and will now spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Maldonado, 40, had completed a prison sentence stemming from a 2000 rape in West Delray. While he was wearing an ankle bracelet, he was not being tracked 24/7 by sheriffs, however the GPS device did beep during the alleged rape, because he was breaking his 10pm curfew.

With the crime already in progress during the March 30, 2016 incident, the broken curfew alert did not stop the attack.

He was handed his life sentence for breaking the terms of his probation. His trial for the 2016 charges on sexual battery, kidnapping, carjacking and burglary with assault or battery will have its first hearing August 10.

'I am here just because of the mercy of God,' the widowed victim told Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley, according to the Sun Sentinel. 'He would have killed me.'

'He's a danger to the community,' the victim testified Monday. 'He's a mean person. He needs to be locked up for the good of everybody.'

Maldonado was wearing a GPS ankle monitor which started beeping in the middle of the alleged crime, which aided detectives who wanted to pinpoint his whereabouts

Finally free from his previous rape sentence, Maldonado was handed down a life sentence for violating the terms of his probation, and is still waiting for a trial on the new rape charge

The Assistant State Attorney said that Maldonado being fully aware he had a GPS tracking device on him, and still committing a sexual assault despite it, shows he is a serial rapist, who should not be allowed to be free again.

'Knowing that his whereabouts are monitored … he's unable to control his behavior, his desires, and his impulses,' the state attorney said. 'He has shown this court what he is capable of.'

While the GPS records prove he violated curfrew and a rape-test of the elderly woman showed his DNA in her, his public defender says he wasn't supposed to have an ankle monitoring bracelet on, in the terms of his probation.

They argued the monitoring information is the same as an unreasonable search.

However the judge said that probation officials made 'an honest mistake and not deliberate or reckless conduct.'

'The GPS evidence at issue here is reliable and trustworthy and is probative of the Defendant's guilt or innocence,' the judge wrote last year.

Still, Maldonado's team will try to appeal the verdict on the GPS evidence, and try to get it thrown from the sexual assault case.

The victim told detectives she heard beeping sounds during the attack, which is how they were able to track Maldonado originally after they looked at known sex-offenders in the area.

He was identified through the GPS monitoring device data.