Sex offender pleads guilty, gets 75 years to life in prison

A registered sex offender from Santa Maria who pleaded guilty this morning to committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 14 will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Gary Townsend Boyd, 62, molested a 4-year-old girl between May 1
and June 12, said case prosecutor Deputy District Attorney Stephen
Foley

Boyd was previously sentenced to 11 years in prison for his 1984 conviction of three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, Foley said.

Those acts of sexual abuse more than 20 years ago took place in Santa Maria, he said.

Boyd will be sentenced on Jan. 28 to 75 years to life in prison, Foley said.