Fernando Cervantes, 48 of Fillmore, was sentenced on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 to 60 years to life following his conviction on four counts of child molestation. A jury found Cervantes guilty of sexually abusing four female
relatives under the age of 14, since 1996 when the victims were 5 or 6-years old. The guilty verdict covered two felony counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and two felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under 14. His sons, Oscar, 21, and Francisco Cervantes, 22, were also arrested and charged with molesting female relatives. There trials are pending. They were charged with molesting two of the victims who were sexually abused by their father. The abused ended in 2004.