Man gets 16 years for seeking sex with teen boys
Updated: 9:51 pm, Wed Feb 1, 2012.
Audrie Palmer | MyWestTexas.com
A 30-year-old Midland man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for trying to solicit sex from two teenage boys after giving them a ride home.
Bernardo Santamaria-Chavez was found guilty on two counts of criminal solicitation of a minor Tuesday afternoon by a Midland County jury after deliberating for about an hour and a half in the 238th District Court.
He was sentenced to a term of 16 years and 10 years, to be served concurrently, after the jury returned following an hour of deliberations Tuesday evening, court officials said.
According to evidence presented during the trial, Santamaria-Chavez solicited oral sex from two juvenile boys he found walking along East County Road 60 during the early morning hours of June 27, 2010.
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