Woman’s Attacker Gets 15 Years to Life
A Huntington Beach man was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to the beating and sexual assault of a 79-year-old neighbor, a prosecutor said Monday.
Robert Paul Moore Jr., 31, pleaded guilty to nearly a dozen charges--including sexual assault, robbery and burglary--stemming from the attack last spring at the woman’s mobile home on Beach Boulevard.
The woman was found beaten and tied up June 17. Her Cadillac had been stolen and Moore, a part-time gardener at the mobile-home park, had disappeared. He was arrested a month later in San Diego.
“It was a brutal beating and sexual assault of an elderly widow,” said Deputy Dist. Atty. Dan McNerney. “It’s the kind of crime that somebody ought to be sent to prison for life for.”
McNerney said the woman now lives in a nursing home in Massachusetts.
Moore pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday by Orange County Superior Court Judge David T. McEachen.
Moore will be eligible for parole in about 13 years but is unlikely to be freed, McNerney said.
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