BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Kern County jury has convicted a man, Deandre Weston, on multiple charges related to underage sex crimes against a minor, following a trial that began on Sept. 10, 2025. <\/p>\n
Weston was found guilty of two counts of oral copulation of a child under 10, two counts of sexual penetration with a child under 10, and one count of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14.<\/p>\n
The crimes allegedly happened over four years, from 2017 to 2021, during which Weston repeatedly molested the victim, who was between the ages of 6 and 10. The victim reported the abuse to a school teacher, leading to an investigation by the Bakersfield Police Department and Weston’s subsequent arrest. <\/p>\n
District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer stated, “Laws against child sexual abuse reserve the most serious punishments for those that target the youngest, most vulnerable victims. Weston\u2019s years-long pattern of abuse warrants a life prison commitment, which he is expected to receive when sentenced.” <\/p>\n
Weston faces up to 120 years to life in prison, with sentencing scheduled for Nov. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Kern County jury has convicted a man, Deandre Weston, on multiple charges related to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7221,7220,735,7224,7225,7222,7223,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-6996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-child-sex-crimes","12":"tag-deandre-weston","13":"tag-kern-county","14":"tag-lewd-acts","15":"tag-life-sentence","16":"tag-oral-copulation","17":"tag-sexual-penetration","18":"tag-victim"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996","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=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}