{"id":134048,"date":"2026-01-15T02:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:02:07","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-assaulting-girl-in-santa-ana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134048\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting Girl in Santa Ana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he is related to in a Santa Ana motel room, according to court records obtained Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Martinezespineda pleaded guilty last Wednesday to kidnapping to commit rape and rape, both felonies. As part of the negotiated plea deal with prosecutors, charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 14 and a count of sexual penetration by foreign object and force, both felonies, were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Martinezespineda took the victim to a motel in April 2020 where he raped her \u201cto find out if she was a virgin,\u201d police testified at his preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant also had been charged with sexually assaulting another girl he was related to in June 2022, but that charge was dismissed as part of the plea deal.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was given 897 days of credit behind bars when he was sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 51-year-old man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,4163,9514,4164,4165,21777,22977],"class_list":["post-134048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-assaulting","tag-girl","tag-guilty","tag-pleads","tag-santa","tag-sexually"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}