ACTON : Child Molester Gets 16-year Prison Term
An Acton man who molested three children for years was sentenced to 16 years in state prison Monday.
Walter E. Sullivan Jr., 43, a former construction worker, had pleaded no contest to one of six criminal counts in exchange for the 16-year term. He had faced up to 55 years if convicted on all the counts. Sullivan also was ordered to pay $5,000 to the California Victims Restitution Fund plus restitution for therapy or counseling the victims may require.
Court records indicate that the abuse began when the victims, two boys and a girl, were pre-elementary school age and continued until their teen-age years. Sullivan previously had been convicted of sexual battery in the mid-1980s.
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