{"id":59823,"date":"2025-08-29T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/ex-san-jose-councilmember-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-molestation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:30:20","slug":"ex-san-jose-councilmember-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/ex-san-jose-councilmember-sentenced-to-18-years-for-child-molestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-San Jose councilmember sentenced to 18 years for child molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced former San Jose Councilmember Omar Torres has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading \u2018no contest\u2019 to child molestation charges in April \u2014 a final turn in the shocking saga that rocked City Hall and Silicon Valley\u2019s political scene. Torres listened, while his family looked on, as Superior Court Judge Cynthia Sevely read his sentencing that fell a few years short of the maximum possible 24 years for crimes of sodomy, oral copulation and lewd and lascivious acts with a minor relative under the age of 14 in 1999. Torres\u2019 defense asked Cevely for a generous five&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/ex-san-jose-councilmember-omar-torres-sentenced-to-18-years-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced former San Jose Councilmember Omar Torres has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading \u2018no contest\u2019 to child molestation charges in April \u2014 a final turn in the shocking saga that rocked City Hall and Silicon Valley\u2019s political scene. Torres listened, while his family looked on, as Superior Court Judge Cynthia Sevely &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}