Source: kcra.com 3/26/24
[ACSOL is posting this as an example of extreme sentences]
A Woodland man received multiple life sentences for the sexual assaults of four minor female victims, according to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.
On Monday, 30-year-old Miguel ___ was sentenced to two indeterminate life sentences in state prison, totaling 30 years, with an additional term of 10 years after his life sentence is served.
In January, Miguel pled guilty to three counts of committing a lewd or lascivious act upon a child under 14 for three different victims and one count of committing a sexual act with a child under 10 years of age for one victim.
The victims ranged in age from five to 11 years old, according to the district attorney. The victims were abused at the home of a family member over a period of many years.
In Florida he would have gotten LWOP. Sentences in Florida need to be exposed.
How did he not get 3 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, one for each victim with an additional term of 20 years. These California laws don’t even make since anyone.
In the home of a family member and in a position of trust…two of the most common positions one can have when committing crimes against minors according to the stats…the registry could’ve prevented this how again?
This kind of sentence happened because the DA in Yolo County Jeff Reisig is a strict law-and-order jerk and likes to push for such long, outrageous sentences in plea deals, gambling that the judge will not give out a lesser one if the defendant goes to trial. He wants to get re-elected as he has done every two years for quite a long while now and probably will continue to be re-elected until he keels over dead at his desk or decides to run for higher office. He is responsible for the performative nonsense called Operation Vigilance where law enforcement perform compliance checks throughout Yolo County. Every year the Woodland PD show up at my door and pound on it demanding my attention. It is so obvious that they are police that I just ignore them as no registered citizen is required to respond to such inquiries. They go away empty handed and I’m free of them for another year, having only to deal with them around the time of my birthday.
Obviously he deserves prison, but I still find these sentences crazy. The average person who murders someone over $5 usually doesn’t even get anywhere the same amount of time. Its crazy that a sex crime is seen as worse than taking someones life.
First, and most importantly, please spare a thought for those girls. Nothing so horrible has happened to this man, that they should be forgotten.
Now…a few thoughts…. If this guy is such an out of control predator, where are all his stranger victims? He continued to abuse these same girls for years… but where are the others? Seems he only abused victims he was able to get access to by winning the trust of the family. That’s not predation, that just opportunistic…. there’s a difference.
Where are all the other families he used to gain access? Where is the pattern of gaining access to facilitate abuse? Where is the pattern of predation?
Predators hunt for prey… this man seems more of a grazer than a hunter. Stay in one spot, and graze on what’s there. I wonder if there were other kids he had access to, but were not abused? Almost as if he had found a good grazing spot, and there was no need to risk any others? This is not predatory behavior….
Last but not least, a sentence like this says only one thing to an actual predator… make sure nobody squeals…ever. Make absolutely sure none of them tell anyone, anything…ever.
What are you going to do, make them die in prison twice? Make the consequences of their actions unsurvivable, then they have no reason not to try to avoid them at any and all costs.
“Die in Prison” is what got Megan and Jessica killed. Might have been what got Jacob killed as well. How many more need to die for that?
I thought the registry prevented this sort of thing…
And am I the only one that thinks the headline is misleading? I was expecting to read how the person convicted was already on the registry. I would think something like “Woodland man receives multiple life sentences for sex crimes against children” would be more accurate.