Defendant Daniel Clay Vilas, age 62, of Jamestown, was sentenced Wednesday morning in the Mendocino County Superior Court to 16 years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
Defendant Vilas stands convicted by plea of forcible oral copulation of a child under 14 years of age, a felony, and a separate felony conviction of sexual penetration with a foreign object by force on a child under 14 years of age. The victim in each count was six years of age at the time of the defendant's sexual misconduct.
Because these acts are characterized as violent in the Penal Code, the good time/work time credits that the defendant may attempt to earn in prison shall be limited to no more than 15% of the total sentence. Upon his eventual release from state prison down the road, the defendant will be required to register with local law enforcement as a sex offender annually for life wherever he may live.
As part of the negotiated disposition, the defendant waived his pre-sentence credits earned for time spent in the local county jail pending today's sentencing. He also waived any right to appellate review of his convictions.
The prosecutor who handled this case from filing through plea through today's sentencing hearing is Assistant District Attorney Dale P. Trigg.
The investigating law enforcement agency was the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
The judge who presided over today's sentencing hearing and imposed the prison sentence was Mendocino County Superior Court Judge John Behnke.
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