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Ex-official gets 18 years for molesting underage relative
Los Angeles Times
|August 31, 2025
A former Bay Area city councilmember was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday for molesting an underage family member more than two decades ago, prosecutors said.
FORMER SAN JOSE Councilman Omar Torres, shown here in 2010, assaulted the child for years.
Omar Torres, who served on the San Jose City Council from 2023 until he was charged in 2024, pleaded no contest in April to charges of forcible sodomy, forcible oral copulation and molestation of a child under 14, the Santa Clara district attorney's office said in a statement.
This story is from the August 31, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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