A man convicted of sexually abusing multiple young girls over the course of many years was sentenced in El Cajon Tuesday to 325 years to life in state prison.<\/p>\n
Christopher T. Gardner, 33, was convicted of 15 felony sex abuse counts by an East County jury earlier this year for molesting girls who were as young as 6 when the abuse began, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say one of the victims disclosed the abuse to a friend while they were at a sleepover and the friend ultimately told her mother, leading to a police investigation.<\/p>\n
Gardner was initially arrested on suspicion of molesting two victims, but later a third victim came forward, the D.A.’s Office said.<\/p>\n
“Predators who rob children of their innocence and inflict lifelong trauma do not belong in our communities,” San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said in a statement. “This sentence sends an unmistakable message to abusers: you will be held accountable. I am deeply grateful to our specialized sexual abuse prosecution team for their dedication in bringing a measure of justice to the survivors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man convicted of sexually abusing multiple young girls over the course of many years was sentenced in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3552,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-391699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391699","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=391699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}