CA Priest Gets One Year On Child Sex/Porn Charges

The Ventura County Star reports:

A former Oxnard priest was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail in connection with sex offenses against two youths in Los Angeles County but avoided state prison, officials said.

Rodolfo Martinez-Guevara pleaded no contest to sodomy with a person under age 16 and a lewd act with a child age 14 or 15, according to court records. The first offense applies when the perpetrator is over age 21 and the second if the perpetrator is at least 10 years older than the child.

The 39-year-old man will serve the jail term concurrently with a December 9 one-year sentence in Ventura County for possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to a suspended prison term of two years in Ventura County and required to register as a sex offender for at least 10 years.

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