Man Given 2 More Years in Sex Case : Sentence: The penalty for sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl brought the term now faced by a defendant convicted in an earlier case to 25 years.

A former consumer marketing manager for the Los Angeles Times, serving a 23-year sentence for sexually assaulting two young girls, was given two additional years in prison Monday.

The two years were added in exchange for a guilty plea by Thomas Scarth McVickers in the case of a third victim, a 13-year-old girl. McVickers now faces a total of 25 years in prison.

The sentencing, by Superior Court Judge Myron S. Brown, disappointed the prosecutor in the case, Deputy Dist. Atty. Ariadne J. Symons, who had hoped that the charges would result in an additional 10 years on his sentence.

“It’s not enough for what this man has done,” she said of the 25-year sentence McVickers now has.

Prosecutors allege that McVickers, now 43, of Anaheim, picked up some of his victims--either hitchhikers or runaways--while driving the Los Angeles Times van assigned to him. He allegedly told his victims that he was a professional photographer who could help them get started with modeling careers.

One alleged victim told the police that McVickers had told her he was “a photographer-interviewer for The Times, looking for attractive female models.”

A spokesman for the Times Orange County edition circulation office said McVickers was in charge of a crew of sales people and was assigned a van as part of his duties. McVickers was employed by The Times from April 26, 1983, to May 4, 1989, although he had been in Orange County Jail since his arrest in March, 1988.

McVickers wrote to the court last year that he never meant to commit any crimes, but that he simply “gave in to temptation when opportunities presented themselves.”

One of the victims, whose case was part of McVickers’ first trial, was only 12 years old when she posed for him and was forced to have sex. The girl was the daughter of a woman McVickers had been living with at the time. The second victim was 15 when she first had sex with McVickers.

The police alleged that there were several other victims not included in the original charges either because they would not cooperate or because of statute of limitation problems. But Symons did manage to file new charges involving one more victim, the 13-year-old girl.

Symons said that the victim in the new charges could have been included in the first trial but that the parameters of that case had already been decided before she was assigned the case. Symons said she decided to go after McVickers at a new trial because she believed that his 23-year sentence was not proper punishment for him.

“This man should never be out on the streets again,” she said. “This is a man who hates women.”

McVickers’ attorney, William Morrissey, declined to comment on Judge Brown’s sentence. Symons, though unhappy, claiming that two more years was inadequate, said there were reasons behind it.

“Judge Brown is faced with having to deal a lot of cases because of courtrooms already overcrowded with trials,” she said. “He may have decided that 25 years total was enough for these charges. But I don’t agree.”

Brown runs the calendar courtroom for Superior Court--where almost all felony cases are either resolved or sent out for trial--and is faced with daily plea bargaining. Monday, for example, Brown had more than 90 cases in his courtroom.

Symons added that even if it was just two more years, it was worth the effort because it will cause at least a year’s delay in McVickers’ release.