Man sentenced to 12 years for
Ventura bowling alley molestations
September 18, 2015
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
An Oxnard man who changed his plea to guilty just as his trail was starting was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in state prison for molesting two young girls at a Ventura bowling alley where he worked as a mechanic. The victims included a Santa Paula child.
Adolfo “A.C.” Cortez, 55, was sentenced to 12 years in a state prison, ordered to pay restitution and must register as a sex offender. He could also be facing deportation once his sentence is served.
After Cortez pleaded guilty to the lewd acts charges, prosecutors agreed to drop special allegations of aggravated sex crimes.
Cortez was arrested last year after Ventura police received complaints from the mothers of two 10-year-old girls, one from Ventura, the other from Santa Paula, who said Cortez had molested them while they were visiting Buena Lanes.
Ventura Police first investigated Cortez in 2013 on a complaint that he molested the Santa Paula girl while he was at work. Investigators were unable to get the evidence needed to file charges. But in April last year Ventura Police received a similar complaint made by the mother of a 10-year-old Ventura girl about an incident that also occurred at the popular bowling alley; the mother told police her daughter had been molested earlier that same day. At that point the police investigation came up with evidence to tie Cortez to both molestation complaints and charges were filed.
One of Cortez’s victims made a court appearance to offer a victim impact statement and the second victim’s statement was recorded on video.
