A 33-year-old man has pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 28 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Santa Ana, according to court records obtained Friday.
Gustavo Beltran pleaded guilty Thursday to eight felony counts of sexual assault. Beltran had credit for 604 days behind bars.
Beltran sexually assaulted the 9-year-old victim when he lived with her in October 2015, according to police testimony at his preliminary hearing. While out on bail he was charged with rape Oct. 1, 2024, according to court records.
Beltran’s parents divorced when he was 13 and his mother moved back to Mexico with an ex-boyfriend as the defendant stayed with his father for two years, according to court records. Beltran reported his father drank to excess and was verbally abusive.
Beltran moved in with his sister and while living with her committed the sex crimes, according to court records.
Beltran, who was a janitor for the Santa Ana Unified School District and worked in security, told a psychiatric expert that he had been raped by a neighbor when he was 10 or 11 years old, according to court records.