Yakima massage therapist pleads guilty to raping client, sentenced to 6 months in jail - Yakima Herald-Republic

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A Yakima massage therapist has been sentenced to six months in jail for raping a client in 2023.

Originally charged with second-degree rape, Jose Adrian Cisneros-Alvarez pleaded guilty to third-degree rape as part of a plea agreement in December in Yakima County Superior Court.

As part of the agreement, prosecutors recommended Cisneros-Alvarez serve six months in jail, with 12 months of community custody. With his lack of criminal history, Cisneros-Alvarez’s standard sentencing range was six months to a year.

At a Jan. 22 sentencing hearing, Judge Elisabeth Tutsch went with the recommendation, including requiring Cisneros-Alvarez to register as a sex offender. Court records show he was booked into the Yakima County jail that day.

A woman told Yakima police that she was seeing Cisneros-Alvarez to relieve pain from an injury when he raped her during a massage.

The Yakima Herald-Republic typically does not publish the name of sexual assault victims without their consent.

State Department of Health officials suspended Cisneros-Alvarez’s therapist license in July 2024, finding that he represented an “imminent danger” based on the charges against him. Health Department records show the license remains suspended.