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Atherton home burglary
A home on the 200 block of Oak Grove Avenue was burglarized between March 13 and March 15, according to the Atherton Police Department.
Officers arrived at the home on March 15 and found a broken rear glass door. The department said jewelry was stolen.
The incident is under investigation and no arrests have been made. The Atherton Police Department asks residents in the area to check their security camera footage and send any pertinent information to the department.
Redwood City tutor sentenced
A former tutor in Redwood City was given three years in state prison for the sexual abuse of a student, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said on March 17.
Aldo Ricardo Sepulveda Perez, 39, was found guilty of engaging in multiple acts of molestation between 2020 and 2021 with a child aged 11 and 12 at the time of the crimes, prosecutors said.
Perez was hired as a tutor and over the course of 15 months he engaged in hugging, touching, showing sex films and the use of sex toys.
“The victim finally told his mother, because the victim was concerned that Perez might be doing it to other people that he tutored,” District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe told this news organization.
Perez was arrested in 2023 following an investigation into reports of someone soliciting children for lewd purposes. He was originally booked into jail on suspicion of lascivious acts with a child, contacting a minor for sexual purposes and arranging to meet a minor for a lewd or lascivious act.
The investigation resulted in the seizure of electronic items from Perez’s home on the 200 block of First Avenue in unincorporated Redwood City and his workplace on the 1700 block of East Bayshore Road, according to the Redwood City Police Department.
Judge Jeffrey Jackson denied probation and sentenced Perez to state prison for three years with 132 days credit for time served. Perez will be required to serve at least 80% of his sentence. He will also have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and have no contact with the victim for 10 years.
Perez was ordered to pay police and prosecutors a combined $1,070 but the amount of restitution due to the victim has yet to be determined, Wagstaffe said.
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