A 68-year-old Las Vegas man was sentenced Friday to 317 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting two girls he was related to in Orange County.
One of the girls confided to her doctor during a wellness check in July 2021 that Donald Charles Luther had molested her when she was 5 to 9 years old and living with him in Dove Canyon, prosecutors said in a trial brief.
Luther, who was convicted Oct. 21, had credit for 1,751 days behind bars since his arrest.
The then-15-year-old girl’s mother took her to Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies to report the allegations.
The girl said Luther would molest her while babysitting her as her mother went to school, prosecutors said. The victim said he made her watch pornography, prosecutors added.
The girl’s mother told investigators as they interviewed her daughter that the defendant also molested her when they lived in Humboldt County when she was younger, prosecutors said.
The girl’s mother told authorities about it when she was 12 and Luther was arrested, but because her mother and grandmother didn’t believe her and were pressuring her, she recanted the allegations, prosecutors said.
The other victim said she was molested by Luther when she was 11 to 13 years old in the early 1990s.