NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Prosecutors said a New Haven man's repeated molestation of several children was so extreme that he deserves a life sentence.

One victim of 36-year-old Carlos Rivera was so upset over the years of abuse that he shot himself in the head, according to the prosecutors.

Rivera faces a mandatory life sentence after his latest conviction in July triggered a "two strikes and you're out" law for sex crimes.

He's the first person in Connecticut charged under the law, and the second in the nation.

Rivera had already been convicted in 1996 of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old relative.

He was convicted again in July of making and possessing child pornography, and preying on teen boys over the Internet.

Prosecutors said he also kept a log of his victims, one of whom killed himself in 2004.

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