Castroville man sentenced to 25 years in prison for committing sex acts upon a minor

SALINAS, CALIF. (KION-TV)- The Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni said a 37-year-old will spend the next 25 years in state prison. for committing three counts of forcible lewd or lascivious acts on a minor under 14.

Clemente Magana Alanis is charged with committing three counts of forcible lewd or lascivious acts on a minor under 14. The sentence follows Alanis’s previous plea to the charges back on September 20, 2023.

Back in August of 2022, police responded to a call from a middle school counselor who was reporting a past-tense sexual assault case made by a female student who was under the age of 14 at the time.

Detectives worked with the school counselor to get details of the sexual assaults and ongoing trauma the student, Jane Doe, was suffering at the hands of Alanis. Jane Doe detailed molestation going back to when she was seven years old.

Alanis admitted to detectives that he had touched Jane Doe and wrote her an apology letter. Clemente will have to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life.