WOODLAND — Already serving federal prison time for his role in a Davis indecent exposure incident, a Grizzly Flats man had another three years tacked onto his sentence last month after resolving local charges in the case.
Nicholas Robert Bowen, 63, was transported on July 20 from federal prison to Yolo Superior Court, where he pleaded no contest to conspiracy and lewd conduct charges.
Judge David Reed sentenced Bowen to three years in state prison, which will run consecutive to the 12-1/2 year federal term he is serving for a related child pornography conviction, according to court documents.
The plea came just over two years after Bowen, then a branch chief for the state Department of Health Services, came to Davis with Wenyi Xu of Folsom on July 10, 2013. Equipped with a “spy camera” built into his glasses, Bowen recorded Xu as she exposed herself to several young boys riding their bikes in Community Park.
A park worker witnessed the incident, and police arrested the pair as they returned to their car.
Both later faced federal charges after a search of their personal phones and computers reportedly revealed they had engaged in the receipt and distribution of child pornography, including Xu sending explicit photos of her toddler daughter to Bowen, authorities said.
Xu pleaded no contest in October 2014 to conspiracy, indecent exposure, child annoyance, lewd conduct and child pornography in the Yolo County case, which resulted in a three-year, eight-month state prison term and the dismissal of the federal charges.
Now 32, she is serving her sentence at the Golden State Modified Community Correctional Facility in McFarland.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene