A Woodland man faces a potential life sentence in prison following his conviction on child-molestation charges last week, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced Monday.
Fidel Alcantar Soto, 54, was found guilty of the charges Friday following a four-day jury trial in Yolo Superior Court.
Authorities testified that Soto’s son caught the defendant molesting his 5-year-old daughter in November, and that Soto had molested another child in the mid-1990s. The jury convicted him of oral copulation with a child under age 10, lewd acts with a child and child abuse, with an enhancement for molesting multiple children, Reisig said.
Soto is scheduled to be sentenced at 9 a.m. June 5 by Judge David Reed, who presided over the trial.