Hays County District Court Judge Joe Pool sentenced 44year-old Richard Santa Ana to a total of 218 years in prison after being found guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact.
The sentence followed a bench trial that proved that Santa Ana had repeatedly drugged and sexually assaulted the teenage daughter of a friend. Evidence during the punishment phase included testimony from a previous victim that the defendant had sexually assaulted in 2007.
Despite the verdict, the defendant remained unremorseful. Judge Pool stated, “This gives notice to others in the community that we’re not going to accept this type of behavior.”…