A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced a man to 71 years to life in prison for sexually abusing five children, including some abuse that stemmed from a daycare center his parents owned.
Prosecutors said the man convicted of child sex abuse over nearly three decades will be eligible in 18 years.
Judge David Bonilla sentenced 47-year-old Jerry Don Egy on Friday, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office announced in a news release Monday. Egy remains in custody at the Sacramento County Jail pending transfer to a correctional facility. He has been in custody since his arrest in June 2022.
On September 20, Egy pleaded no contest to three charges of committing an obscene act against a child, along with two charges of committing an obscene act against a child and forcible oral copulation, the prosecutor’s office said.
The prosecutor said Egy sexually abused five children between the ages of 8 and 11. When he was arrested two years ago, prosecutors alleged in a filed criminal complaint that Egy sexually abused three girls. Two additional victims were later discovered.
Some of the abuse was related to Egy’s connection to a daycare owned and operated by his parents, who were not accused of being complicit in the alleged crimes, sheriff’s officials said at the time of his arrest. The Sheriff’s Office did not provide the name of the daycare. The Sheriff’s Office did not provide the name of the daycare.
According to the complaint, one girl was sexually abused when she was 8 to 11 years old, sometime between February 17, 2016 and February 16, 2020.
Prosecutors said Monday that there were two victims, ages 8 to 11 years old, and Egy sexually assaulted these victims repeatedly over several years and told her not to tell anyone. According to the prosecutor’s office, Egy held the girl and forced her to watch pornographic videos.
The indictment alleged that Egy repeatedly committed child sexual abuse with victims at various times from October 20, 1995 through November 16, 2018.
When he was 19 or 20 years old, Egy sexually abused two 13-year-old children, prosecutors said in Monday’s news release. They also said Egy, when he was in his 40s, forcibly sexually assaulted a teenage girl after giving her methamphetamine.
Under California law, Egy will be eligible for parole at a parole hearing after serving 20 years of his 71 years to life sentence, the prosecutor’s office said. Because time already spent in custody is included, prosecutors say Egy will be eligible for parole in 18 years.
Depending on a person’s conviction and prison sentence, an inmate may be eligible for parole after serving at least 20 years in prison and reaching the age of 50, or after serving at least 25 years in prison and reaching the age of to have reached 60 years, according to the California Department. of corrections and rehabilitation. Convicted offenders sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole are not eligible for parole for the elderly.
