{"id":262969,"date":"2026-04-11T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:36:07","slug":"orange-county-dental-assistant-sentenced-for-sexually-assaulting-3-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262969\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County dental assistant sentenced for sexually assaulting 3 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Orange County dental assistant has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting three young girls who were patients.<\/p>\n

The dental assistant, Tommy Medina, had worked at OC Kids Dental Care and was initially charged in 2015 with taking a 5-year-old girl in 2013 and a 6-year-old girl in 2014 alone into a dental examination room and sexually assaulting them.<\/p>\n

Medina, who at the time was 25, of Santa Ana, was charged with two felony counts of oral copulation or sexual penetration with a child 10 years or younger. <\/p>\n

The Orange County district attorney\u2019s office sought the public\u2019s help in identifying other potential victims of Medina, after which a third accuser came forward. <\/p>\n

The third accuser, who was 9 years old, said she had a dental procedure at the office and was taken into a private room where Medina put her on a bed and placed a leather cloth over her eyes before assaulting her, the Orange County Register reported.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Medina was charged and later pleaded guilty to the crimes. He was sentenced on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orange County dental assistant has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,3409,9514,2631,346,7222,115447,8801,19946,1584,115449,6162,7223,115448,115446,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-262969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-child","12":"tag-girl","13":"tag-help","14":"tag-office","15":"tag-oral-copulation","16":"tag-orange-county-dental-assistant","17":"tag-orange-county-district-attorney","18":"tag-other-potential-victim","19":"tag-patient","20":"tag-private-room","21":"tag-public","22":"tag-sexual-penetration","23":"tag-third-accuser","24":"tag-tommy-medina","25":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262969","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=262969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}