CALIFORNIA
Sacramento Bee
By Andy Furillo
afurillo@sacbee.com
The Rev. Uriel Ojeda will be facing a prison term of eight years in state prison when he is sentenced Aug. 2 after admitting today that he molested a 13-year-old girl in the bedroom of her parents home in the middle of the night.
“No contest,” Ojeda said, when asked how he would be pleading to the single count of child molestation, after Deputy District Attorney Allison Dunham read the factual basis for the charge against him.
Dunham told the court that sometime between June 29, 2007, and June 30, 2009, in Sacramento County, Ojeda “entered the victim’s bedroom at night when everyone in the household was asleep.”
“She woke up and the defendant was lying next to her in bed,” Dunham said.
The prosecutor said the defendant then reached underneath the girl’s pajamas and touched her in a manner that “constitutes substantial sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14 years, to wit, 13 years,” for the purpose “of arousing, appealing to and gratifying the lust, passion and sexual desire of said defendant.”
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