SANTA ANA — A caretaker pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman with disabilities at a care facility in Mission Viejo.

Gil Franco Carpentero, 66, of Tustin pleaded guilty to two felony counts of committing a lewd act with a dependent adult by a caretaker.

A woman reported that Carpentero sexually assaulted her on Dec. 20, 2021, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. When Carpentero was arrested two years ago he had been caring for intellectually and developmentally disabled adults for the past 10 years, sheriff’s investigators said.

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