James Edward Green - Repeat Sex Offender - 35 years to life

"You deserve every minute of it," the judge told the defendant. "This conduct is despicable. You're the worst of the worst."

Previous convictions include

• PRIOR CODE-RAPE BY FORCE
• SODOMY WITH PERSON UNDER 14 YEARS OR WITH FORCE
• CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN/LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS

A registered sex offender who sexually assaulted two 15-year-old boys while holding them against their will on separate occasions at his City Heights apartment was sentenced Monday to 35 years to life in prison.

James Edward Green, 50, pleaded guilty June 17 to two counts of forced oral copulation and admitted a multiple-victim allegation and a 1980 conviction for committing a lewd act on a child. He agreed then to the stipulated sentence.

Superior Court Judge Frederick Maguire told the defendant that handing down life sentences normally weighs heavy on his mind, but it wasn't a problem in Green's case.

"You deserve every minute of it," the judge told the defendant. "This conduct is despicable. You're the worst of the worst."

Maguire told Green that the damage he caused his victims would take a lifetime to get over.

For his part, Green apologized to his victims.

"I'm sorry about everything that happened," the defendant said.

Green molested the two 15-year-olds last Oct. 1 and Oct. 5. According to an arrest warrant, the defendant offered one boy work and told the other he was an immigration officer.

Green took the teens to his 42nd Street apartment, where he locked them in overnight and sexually assaulted them.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte