DA: 60-year-old Visalia man guilty of child molestation

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 60-year-old antheral from Visalia was recovered blameworthy of kid molestation, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office said connected Wednesday.

According to the DA's office, prosecutors secured a condemnation against 60-year-old Jerome Avilez for kid molestation. He was recovered blameworthy connected 9 felony counts of lewd enactment upon a kid nether the property of 14.

The DA says the assemblage besides recovered existent that Avilez committed the crimes against aggregate victims and that immoderate of the acts constituted important intersexual conduct. According to the DA, the crimes were committed against 3 pistillate minors betwixt 2021 and 2022.

60-year-old Jerome Avilez (image courtesy of the Tulare County DA's office)

The tribunal recovered that Avilez had a anterior condemnation for a forcible lewd enactment upon a kid from 1988, according to the DA.

Sentencing is acceptable for Nov. 14. Avilez faces up to beingness successful authorities prison. The DA's bureau adds that, a effect of the conviction, Avilez volition beryllium required to registry arsenic a enactment offender.