​Jose Raul Pineda claims that his massive prison sentence is unfair following an Orange County trial that found him guilty of 20 sex offenses against his nieces.

Pineda admits that when alone with the elementary school girls he liked to touch them, but he disputes that anyone could know his touching accompanied lewd and lascivious thoughts.

His position is that only he can know if he had dirty thoughts and because he said he didn't, then that's that -- he can't be guilty of committing sex crimes.
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​Jeffrey Blue Miller's crimes were heinous, but he thought he had a great excuse. The reason that he broke into an 85-year-old Los Alamitos woman's home in July 2006, threatened to kill her, slugged her in the head and face, dragged her around by her hair and penetrated her vagina and rectum with foreign objects--including a water hose--was not for the three $20 bills he found while ransacking the home.More >>

​Ian Robert Tedeschi groomed himself as a Southern California bad boy with blond hair, blue eyes and a surgically placed silver ball in the shaft of his penis. The 5-foot-10, 200-pounder bragged that he loved "really big boobs" and belonged to the Orange County Skinheads gang. Before he was halfway through his twenties, he'd created an impressive police rap sheet that included stalking, trespassing, vandalism, possession of a deadly weapon (a nunchaku), felony graffiti, criminal threats and sex crimes. Once, he expressed his displeasure with a driver by slamming a baseball bat into a vehicle's window. At the age of 28, he was calling himself "Taildragger" on his MySpace account. He published an online "Booty Call Agreement" with lines such as "No falling asleep after sex. It's over, so get your ass up, get dressed and go the fuck home" and "Don't be offended if I don't ask if you enjoyed it. I don't care." Plus, "Doggie style is the preferred position--the reason: the less eye contact, the better." His cell-phone ring tone was a recording of his girlfriend moaning during intercourse--which may have been tacky but not entirely degenerative if the girl hadn't been a middle-school student.
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As a Third Striker in the "Big Stanton" criminal street gang, Guillermo O. Ocampo was, according to an associate, accustomed to getting "whatever he wanted." So, to celebrate New Year's Eve 2008, Ocampo saw his teenage nephew's girlfriend at a party and decided he too wanted sex with her. Never mind that he was a 34-year-old violent convicted felon and Jane Doe was just a misguided 13-year-old. For the next five months, a time when he was on probation for other crimes, Ocampo got the girl hooked on crystal meth and used her as his sex slave.

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On a daily basis, the car thief/heroin addict/aggravated assault artist fed the middle school student methamphetamine, fondled her, forced her to give him blowjobs, and anally or vaginally raped her. If she didn't perform sex to his satisfaction, he beat her with his fists, viciously punched her in her vagina or threw objects, likes drinking glasses, at her face, according to law enforcement documents reviewed by OC Weekly.

Ocampo had at least one positive trait. He wasn't possessive. But he managed to ruin that trait too. At various Orange County "dope houses" not far from Disneyland, he made Doe have sex with other men in exchange for drugs. She got pregnant and had an abortion.

Sadly, we've previously seen similar scenarios in OC.

But what caught our attention in this case, however, is that Ocampo, a prior "graduate" of the drug-rehab Phoenix House and the lone brother to five sisters, was so gleeful about his sick accomplishments that he kept a trophy of sorts. When Anaheim police captured him in May 2008 as he walked down a street with the minor, he possessed not just two opium pipes and about a gram of meth, but also a cell phone that contained a video clip of the girl, stoned out of her mind, smoking the incredibly addicting narcotic.

Thanks to Deputy District Attorney Drew Haughton and a jury, Ocampo was sentenced in April by Judge Kazuharu Makino to spend the next 480 years in a California prison. There, he can perfect his favorite hobby: sketching.

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--R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly