District Attorney Tuolumne County Seal Sonora, CA – A convict with crimes in three states including murder and child molestation was denied parole for the one committed in Tuolumne County. 70-year-old Eric Richard Eleson was denied parole at a hearing held via videoconference on January 29th. In the 90s he was found guilty of three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 under the Three Strike Rule and sentenced to 85-years-to-life in prison. The Tuolumne County District Attorney’s office, in a written release, detailed his crime. On Oct. 4, 1994, an eight-year-old girl told her parents that Eleson had molested her and her six-year-old sister twice the night before. Eleson, a family friend and computer repairman, was at the home to fix their computer when the D.A.’s office said he “entered their daughters’ room multiple times and lewdly touched each child.” Eleson was arrested but denied any wrongdoing.