Thursday, June 5, 2008

Convicted Santa Cruz child molester gets life in prison

A convicted child molester could spend the rest of his life in prison, a Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday.

Jason "Seth" O'Connell, 37, was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the 1998 molestation of a 3-year-old girl in her family's Santa Cruz home.

O'Connell, who grew up in Santa Cruz, broke into a family's Blaine Street apartment in November 1998 and sexually assaulted the little girl as her parents slept. The girl's cries awoke her family and O'Connell fled, but he left behind items that allowed police to identify him.

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