Man Given 152 Years for Attacks on Daughter, Teen-Age Girl : Crime: The woman testified her father sexually assaulted her from the ages of 4 to 17. She spoke out because she feared for the safety of his baby girl.

A former Newbury Park man was sentenced Friday to 152 years in prison for repeatedly having sex with his daughter, who as an adult turned her father in to police so he would not molest a baby girl he recently fathered.

Carlos V. Gonzalez, 44, must serve at least half his sentence before he is eligible for parole, meaning he undoubtedly will die in prison.

Superior Court Judge Allan L. Steele said it was his intention that Gonzalez “never come out on the street again.”

“The defendant I don’t understand at all,” Steele said. “He is cut from something I’ve never seen.”

Gonzalez was convicted of 12 counts each of sodomy and oral copulation for having sex with his daughter in 1984 and 1985. He showed no emotion during the sentencing.

The woman, now 23, testified that the sexual abuse began when she was 4 and ended at age 17. The statute of limitations precluded prosecuting Gonzalez for offenses that occurred prior to June, 1984, Deputy Dist. Atty. Saundra T. Brewer said.

Gonzalez fled to Ecuador in 1987 after being convicted of kidnaping and attempting to rape a Newbury Park teen-ager in an unrelated case, Brewer said.

His daughter knew he had later moved to New Jersey with a new, young wife, but kept his whereabouts secret until May, when she learned that the wife had given birth to a baby girl.

“When I heard that, I said . . . I just can’t let this happen again,” the woman, a Westchester resident, said in a telephone interview earlier this week.

She told Ventura County sheriff’s officials where her father was living so that he could be arrested for the 1987 conviction, and then she revealed the history of her own abuse so he would also be held responsible for that, she said.

“I beg you, your honor, do not let my father come out again,” the tearful woman said to Steele at the sentencing hearing. “It will never end because he is a sick man and he cannot be out there in the streets hurting more women and children.”

Before sentencing Gonzalez, the judge praised the daughter for coming forward. He also noted that her three days of testimony during the trial was so powerful that the court stenographer, a seasoned veteran, had tears streaming down her face as she recorded the daughter’s words.

“In spite of the almost incredible amount of pain that this defendant has put his family through, (the daughter) has demonstrated enormous courage,” Steele said.

The judge had harsh words for the defendant for making his daughter withstand the stress of testifying against her father.

“To put this young woman through what she went through just to try this case is beyond me,” Steele said, adding that Gonzalez is “a different breed of cat.”

A pre-sentencing report prepared for the judge chronicled five prior arrests Gonzalez had for sexually assaulting women and children as far back as 1973. The report also listed two arrests in the 1970s for assaulting his wife.

The probation officer noted that in most of those cases, the charges against Gonzalez were dismissed when the alleged victims recanted, most likely as the result of being intimidated by the defendant.

Gonzalez’s daughter testified that the assaults against her became progressively worse as she grew older. Many of the incidents occurred at night while her mother was at work, she said.

At the sentencing hearing, she told Steele the defendant did not deserve the title “father.”

“A father nurtures, loves and protects his child--he did none of that for me,” she said. “He took away my childhood, and he took away my adulthood until I took control.”

Gonzalez’s daughter is married with two children, ages 4 and 2. She said she has been in therapy for seven years because of the molestations, and her life continues to be devastated “to the point where I still struggle day by day.”

Deputy Public Defender Gary Windom argued for a much shorter sentence for Gonzalez than what the judge eventually imposed. Although Windom did not specify a number of years, he argued that the judge should not impose lengthy consecutive sentences for each of the 24 charges.

“If the defendant would have killed somebody he wouldn’t have gotten that much time,” Windom said.

The defense attorney said Gonzalez has just been found to have cancer, and tests are being ordered to determine the extent of it. He urged the judge to select a number of years “that is not unconscionable.”

Brewer asked Steele to impose the maximum sentence of 192 years.

“Yes, it is a lot of years,” she said. “It is not too many years, it’s not excessive for this man who ravages, literally ravages, any female he cares to.”

Steele sentenced Gonzalez to eight years for one of the 24 counts, then added six more years for each of the additional charges. On top of that sentence, which came to 146 years, Steele reimposed a six-year sentence handed down by another judge for the 1987 attack on the Newbury Park teen-ager.