A 47-year-old registered sex offender pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to 29 years in prison for molesting his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter in Lake Forest.
Alejandro Deleon Deleon pleaded guilty to five felony counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14. He was given credit for 1,132 days behind bars and Orange County Superior Court Judge Lance Jensen ordered him to register as a sex offender.
Deleon was charged in April 2022, about seven years after he was freed from jail in a plea bargain involving the molestation of another girl in Anaheim. Deleon pleaded guilty March 20, 2015, to sexually assaulting a victim in September 2012 and was sentenced to three years, or time already served, as part of the plea deal from an Orange County Superior Court judge, according to court records.
According to testimony at his preliminary hearing in the case resolved Wednesday, the victim came forward to authorities when she was 16 years old, about five years after she said she was molested by the defendant.
The girl said when her mother would go to work about 4 or 5 a.m. the defendant would assault her in their apartment, according to the preliminary hearing testimony. Her mother broke up with the defendant when she learned the allegations, according to the testimony.