Guilty pleas for Ventura bowling alley
molestations that included SP girl

August 14, 2015
Santa Paula News

Just as his trial got underway last week, an Oxnard man has admitted molesting young girls—including a Santa Paula child—while working as a mechanic at a Ventura bowling alley.

In a Ventura County Superior Court, Adolfo “A.C.” Cortez, 55, changed his pleas to guilty on three counts of felony lewd acts upon a child.

Cortez was arrested last year after Ventura police received complaints from the mothers of two 10-year-old girls, one from Ventura, the other from Santa Paula, who said Cortez had molested them while visiting Buena Lanes.

Ventura Police first investigated Cortez, who worked as a mechanic at the bowling alley, in 2013 on a complaint that he molested the Santa Paula girl while he was at work. Investigators were unable to get the evidence needed to file charges. But in April last year Ventura Police received a similar complaint made by the mother of a 10-year-old Ventura girl about an incident that also occurred at the popular bowling alley; the mother told police her daughter had been molested earlier that same day. At that point the police investigation came up with evidence to tie Cortez to both molestation complaints and charges were filed.

After Cortez plead guilty to the lewd acts charges, prosecutors agreed to drop special allegations of aggravated sex crimes.

He remains in jail on $250,000 bail and an INS (US Immigration and Naturalization Service) hold pending sentencing on September 18.





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