(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Yuba County Court yesterday, John Manuel Cardoza, Jr. was sentenced to 101 years to life, for eight separate charges related to child molestation.

The abuse began when the victim was 8-years-old in 2018, and continued until last year, when the victim wrote their mother a letter detailing what had happened. That included describing forcible acts, even under the threat of Cardoza Jr. that harm would come to the victim’s siblings if the victim told on him.

Ultimately however, the victim was more terrified of another encounter with Cardoza Jr.

He was taken into custody within a few hours of the victim’s one and only interview with a detective, greatly minimizing the added trauma of having to relive what happened, numerous times.

Several of the crimes were also committed in Sutter County, where the DA allowed those crimes to be prosecuted in Yuba County, to avoid having the victim having to testify twice.