From Chelsea Phua:
A 27-year-old Roseville man has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of child molestation and one count of making threats to dissuade a victim or witness from testifying, the Placer County District Attorney's office says.
Guillermo A. Quintanilla Jr. (left), who made the plea on Friday in Placer Superior Court, faces 30 years, eight months in state prison, a department news release stated today.
Quintanilla originally was charged with 45 counts of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14. The crimes occurred over a four-year period that began in 2005 when the girl was 8 years old. Two other original counts included threats made to the victim and the exhibition of harmful matter to a child.
He would have faced 271 years, four months in prison if convicted on all counts, but prosecutor Jeff Wood said the guilty plea spared the 12-year-old girl from a trial and having to testify about the details.
"With the plea, she will not be further traumatized by the defendant," Wood said. "She will not have to testify to the unspeakable things he did to her. She can be done with him."
Quintanilla is scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 20.
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