Former youth soccer coach sentenced to 155 years behind bars for sexually assaulting player, abusing authority

A former California youth soccer coach convicted of molesting a toddler for six years has been sentenced to over 155 years behind bars.

Jesus Anthony Magana, 39, from Oxnard, was sentenced to 155 years to life in jail on Wednesday following his earlier conviction involving a number of counts of sexually assaulting and committing lewd acts with a younger baby, in response to the Ventura County District Legal professional’s Workplace.

On Sept. 7, Magana was convicted of 5 counts of illegal acts on a toddler 10 years of age or youthful, 4 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a kid and 7 counts of lewd acts on a toddler underneath the age of 14. Every of those expenses is a separate felony.

Ventura County Superior Courtroom Choose Derek D. Malan learn out Wednesday’s sentencing after a jury discovered Magana responsible on all counts. Magana denied or pleaded not responsible to every offense.

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Magana was a soccer coach with the American Youth Soccer Group (AYSO) for a number of years, together with a span between 2013 and 2019, when the crimes occurred with the identical sufferer, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.

The court docket ordered Magana to pay restitution to the dad and mom of the sufferer, whom the court docket mentioned Magana was to not contact “in individual, by mail, by cellphone or in some other method both instantly or not directly.”

A sufferer impression assertion on behalf of two different minor kids was learn through the trial, the Ventura County District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned.

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The court docket subsequently issued a protecting order for the sufferer and the 2 who testified for ten years. Fox Information Digital has deliberately excluded the names of the victims concerned because of their age and the sensitivity of the case. 

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In line with the prosecutor’s workplace, Magana abused his management place to achieve entry to the kid.

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“The defendant betrayed a place of belief to achieve entry to kids,” mentioned prosecutor Amber Lee, in response to the Ventura County Star.

Lee added: “The sentence displays the depravity of his conduct but additionally the exhausting work of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Workplace of their investigation and the energy of the witnesses.”

“I hope this sentence offers some degree of closure for the victims and protects our group from future hurt by this defendant,” the prosecutor additionally mentioned.

Magana can attraction the sentencing, the court docket mentioned.