{"id":217170,"date":"2026-03-12T23:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217170\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:17:18","slug":"bakersfield-man-must-register-for-life-as-a-sex-offender-after-time-served-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217170\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man must register for life as a sex offender after time-served sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Bakersfield man accused in separate cases involving<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-man-arrested-for-burglary-resisting-arrest-amid-ongoing-sexual-assault-investigation-bpd-bakersfield-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> burglary charges and the sexual assault of an elderly woman at the same home<\/a> was sentenced to time served and must register as a lifetime sex offender, according to the Kern County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>Fermin Maciel was credited 1,909 days for time served as part of his sentence, said a court official.<\/p>\n<p>Maciel, 31 at the time, was arrested July 31, 2023, after Bakersfield police officers responded to a home at about 3:52 a.m. in the 100 block of 8th Street for a reported sexual assault. Maciel entered the woman\u2019s home without her permission, police said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers tried to talk to Maciel, he ran into the home. He was arrested shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Police determined Maciel knew the elderly woman\u2019s son. The sexual assault took place on June 29, 2023, at the home on 8th Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Maciel pleaded no contest to sexual battery in February 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Bakersfield man accused in separate cases involving burglary charges and the sexual assault of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-217170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217170","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=217170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}