WOODLAND — A Davis man charged with sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled teenage boy at a local library made a plea agreement Thursday that will send him to state prison.
Dennis Lee Azevedo, 60, agreed to a six-year prison term and must register as a sex offender for life as a result of the plea deal. He pleaded no contest to seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child for acts that occurred between June 2015 and April 2016.
The agreement also calls for Azevedo to waive his right to appeal his conviction. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 4 by Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg.
According to testimony from Azevedo’s preliminary hearing last summer, the boy, then 14, disclosed to a teacher and police that he had been having regular sexual encounters with a man in the bathroom of the Stephens Branch Library on East 14th Street. He said he had met the man near the library’s teen section, and that the man had followed him to the restroom.
Investigators later identified Azevedo as the suspect. During a video-recorded police interview, Azevedo admitted he “interacted” with the teen over a 10-month period, but said he believed the boy was older, the encounters consensual and that it was the teen who followed him to the bathroom each time.
Azevedo has been in Yolo County Jail custody since his April 2016 arrest and will receive credit for time served at his sentencing hearing.
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