SEX OFFENDER RECEIVES 18-YEAR SENTENCE.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer A repeat sex offender sex offender n. generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. accused of molesting two 8-year-old boys at his apartment complex and in one boy's home was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Ronald Michael Becker Sr., 28, of Palmdale, who was convicted of a sex crime two years ago in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state, pleaded no contest Thursday to child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia. charges after prosecutors agreed to dismiss additional counts. ``He has a serious obsession with children, with boys in particular,'' Deputy District Attorney Chris Estes Chris Estes (full name: Christopher Douglas Estes DOB: June 8, 1971) former King Diamond bass player (1994-1999). Originally from Dodge City Kansas, Chris moved to Denton Texas in 1991 to attend the University of North Texas as a Jazz Studies major. said. Becker pleaded no contest to two counts of forcible forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. lewd act with a child under 14 with regard to the two 8-year-old boys, and attempted oral copulation copulation /cop·u·la·tion/ (kop?u-la´shun) sexual union; the transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals. cop·u·la·tion n. 1. with a person under 14 in connection with a 12-year-old boy, officials said. Becker was charged with performing sexual acts on the two 8-year-old boys between May and August 1995. One of the boys told his mother about the alleged molestation molestation n. the crime of sexual acts with children up to the age of 18, including touching of private parts, exposure of genitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape, inducement of sexual acts with the molester or with other children, and variations of these after she questioned him about a $5 bill he had, court records show. The third victim came forward after the initial charges were filed. Court records indicate Becker was convicted in 1993 in New York state of felony forcible sexual abuse. Officials at the state sex registration unit in Sacramento said Becker had not registered as a sex offender following the New York conviction, records show. The incidents involving the two younger boys occurred mostly at Becker's apartment and in a dressing room by a pool in the complex, starting within three months after Becker and his wife moved in, records show. Deputies who searched Becker's apartment found a box of newspaper clippings of reports of victims of sexual abuse and deaths of children, as well as pictures of young boys from newspaper and magazine ads, records show. Deputies also found a box containing numerous file folders with the names of young male film and television stars and articles about each of them, records show. |
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