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A 45-year-old man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to sexually abusing multiple girls and contacting several more online was sentenced Friday in San Diego Superior Court to 40 years in prison.
Ivan Matias-Montes admitted to manipulating at least three minors that he had contacted through social media to meet up with him. He would then sexually assault them.
One victim identified in court as Jane Doe said he had first contacted her when she was 14 years old through Instagram. What followed was years’ worth of physical and emotional torment perpetuated by a man who had at home a wife and a daughter the same age, she said.
“I was 15 years old, hadn’t even gotten my driver’s license yet … and an adult man was telling me that his whole life depended on me,” the victim said in a statement to Matias-Montes in court on Friday. “I felt trapped in our contact, scared to leave, but also unhappy to stay.”
Judge John Pro, before handing down a sentence that was double the amount of years the victim had requested, called the case one of the most “horrific cases of sexual abuse, physical trauma, psychological trauma and predatory acts” that he had seen in his decades-long legal career.
Jane Doe was the victim of more than a dozen assaults “committed by a 40-year-old man repeatedly in vehicles, seedy hotels and the bedroom where she sleeps,” Pro said. “This lasted for years, and what’s more is that this is just a snapshot of the same predatory method...
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