A 39-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday and was immediately sentenced to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in San Juan Capistrano.
Orlando Usevio Saldivar pleaded guilty to a felony count of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14. As part of the plea deal, a felony count of oral copulation or sexual penetration of a child 10 or younger was dismissed.
Saldivar, who had credit for 523 days already served in jail, was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
According to testimony at Saldivar’s preliminary hearing, he was a friend of the family for about 10 years and was visiting the home of the victim when a relative saw him emerge from a room with the girl. Saldivar was not supposed to be alone with the child because of earlier questionable incidents involving her, police testified.