A convicted sex offender could be sentenced to more than a millenium in prison for molesting two girls, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Horace Mann Williams, 44, is facing a penalty of up to 1,330 years in prison when he is sentenced Friday at the Murrieta Courthouse, said Deputy District Attorney Burke Strunsky.
Williams previously spent six years in prison for sexual molestation in the early 1990s.
He was convicted in February of 11 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14 and one count of digital penetration of a child under 14, along with a sentence-enhancing allegation of multiple victims.
Outside court, jurors said they convicted Williams because he showed a pattern of behavior typical for child molesters.
“After a first offense and after a parole violation, he couldn't stay away from girls,” one juror said.
In his closing argument, Strunsky noted that over nearly 10 years, three girls made similar accusations against the defendant.
“Three separate girls who didn't know each other come in with remarkably similar stories,” Strunsky said.
Williams molested one girl on various occasions between 1999 and 2000.
He molested another girl on four to 10 occasions during the summer of 2005. The then 13-year-old girl came forward in November 2005.
According to a probation officer's sentencing memorandum filed with the court, Williams is not eligible for parole and should receive consecutive time for each count and enhanced sentences for having prior strike offenses, having multiple victims and committing multiple offenses against multiple victims
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