Former teacher who lured child for sex sentenced
A Yolo Superior Court judge sentenced 29-year-old Taylor Lewis Gholar to three years in state prison Thursday after a jury convicted him of meeting and communicating with a minor for the purpose of lewd or lascivious conduct, according to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.
Gholar, a Sacramento resident, will also be required to register as a sex offender for life.
At trial, the jury heard evidence that Gholar met the victim when she was in second grade while employed as her after-school teacher. Gholar was the victim’s teacher for the next three years, resuming contact with her two years later when she was in seventh grade.
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Mark Manteuffel, 60, was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for 1990s sexual assaults in Davis and Sacramento. Courtesy photo
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WOODLAND For more than a quarter-century, Kristen Escamilla pushed law-enforcement officers to find her attacker the masked stranger who snatched and sexually assaulted her along a South Davis greenbelt in January 1994.
Her efforts came to fruition on Friday, when a Yolo County judge sentenced Mark Jeffrey Manteuffel to six years in state prison part of an overall 35-year sentence stemming from three 1990s rapes solved recently through DNA science.
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Dec 12, 2020
A Sacramento man is heading to prison for three years after he allegedly tried to arrange to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. The Yolo County District Attorney says 29-year-old Taylor Gholar worked for the Sacramento Unified School District, and was an after-school teacher for the West Sacramento girl for three years through the fifth grade.
Investigators say Gholar contacted the young victim earlier this year through direct message, requested she send him photos, and sent a sexually explicit image of himself.
West Sacramento Police, posing as the girl, later arranged a meeting with Gholar, where they arrested him.
Rehabilitation earns convicted burglar shortened prison sentence
A Davis native will gain an earlier release from state prison, at the request of his defense attorney and the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.
Gabriel Eugene, 26, was sentenced in 2016 to a 14-year prison term following a conviction for residential burglary and violating his recent parole in a prior burglary case. Last week, a visiting Yolo County judge granted a motion to take five years off his sentence.
The DA’s Office requested Eugene’s sentence reduction under AB 2942, signed into law last year, which for the first time allows prosecutors to recommend shortened prison terms in the interests of justice.