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Man gets 5 years for abusing teen
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Posted on May 24 2006
The Superior Court has imposed a five-year prison term on a man convicted of sexually abusing a minor girl.
Associate Judge Juan T. Lizama sentenced 57-year-old William Wanket to 10 years in jail, all suspended except for five years, for sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree.
Following a plea agreement, Lizama said Wanket would not be eligible for parole.
The judge gave the defendant credit for the time he had already served in jail and required him to pay a $1,000 fine and $100 in court assessment fee.
After serving the jail term, Wanket will be placed on five years probation. He will also be subjected to an HIV test.
On May 1, 2006, the Attorney General’s Office filed an amended information charging Wanket with sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree. The defendant pleaded guilty.
According to the factual basis of the plea agreement, on Aug. 27, 2004 the defendant “engaged in a genital contact with the juvenile.”
Meanwhile, the court clarified that the sentences imposed on convicted burglar Daniel H. Dela Cruz shall run consecutively and not concurrently.
This means that the total jail time for Dela Cruz in two cases shall be five years without parole and less credit for the time he had already served.
Dela Cruz’s co-defendant, Michael Peter, was also earlier sentenced to five years in jail for the same offenses.
