Ex-sub pleads no contest to child molestation charges
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If convicted, Jessie Llorente III, 39, could face up to five years of probation or up to three years in state prison. The former Kelly School substitute appeared in the Stockton courthouse for a few minutes this morning.
Llorente faces nine felony counts of lewd acts upon a child, nine misdemeanor counts of child molestation and one felony count of possessing child pornography.
San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Franklin Stephenson said Llorente, who is in custody at the county jail in French Camp, would have to appear in court again at 8:30 a.m., Nov. 3 for his sentencing. Stephenson said Llorente would have to register for life as a sex offender. He also ordered a doctor’s report to gauge the likelihood of Llorente committing similar crimes after his release.
Llorente spoke a few times during the hearing, only to say “Yes, I do your honor,” when Stephenson asked if he agreed to waive his right to a trial and if he understood that a no contest plea is basically the same as guilty.
Llorente, who graduated from Tracy High School in 1988, had also served as a substitute teacher in San Jose and Los Angeles. Tracy police arrested him on March 19.
Police said at the time that Llorente became aroused while touching the hair and shoulders of eight of the girls he taught. When officers went to the school to talk to him, police said Llorente admitted to owning child pornography. Police then seized his laptop, in which they said they found the illegal material.
•Contact Tracy Press reporter Justin Lafferty at 830-4269 or jlafferty@tracypress.com.
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« Tinfoil wrote on Monday, Sep 14 at 04:05 PM »
I wonder if this is a chicken or the egg thing. Did it start with physical acts against children or with child porn? My bet is it began with child porn and progressed from there. There's things I've never done and for good reason. Back when I was an acidhead hippie late 1960s/early 70s I never did heroin or meth. And for sure I've never wanted to get into child porn. Same reason each time. We know where it leads. Everything we end up doing begins with a concept. Does'nt matter whether we want to be a rocket scientist,bank robber or child-rapist. There's a beginning to all these things. It's up to us as individuals to see the future that-can-be and avoid the inevitable.
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