A San Clemente orthodontist has been charged with possessing youngster pornography and molesting a 4-year-old boy, the Orange County District Lawyer’s Workplace introduced.
Frank Joseph Mogavero Jr., 63, who operates workplaces in San Clemente, San Diego and Mammoth Lakes, is accused of molesting a toddler between January 2013 and July 2020 in Mono County and Orange County. The primary offense allegedly occurred in Mammoth, when the sufferer was 4 years previous. 4 further offenses occurred in Orange County, when the sufferer was between 11 and 12 years previous.
The sufferer’s identification and his relation to Mogavero should not being launched at the moment, nevertheless the sufferer was not a affected person of Mogavero.
Mogavero is charged with 5 counts of committing a lewd act with a toddler beneath the age of 14 and one depend of possession of kid pornography. If convicted of all counts, he faces a most of 16 years and eight months in state jail.
He’s being held with out bail, and is scheduled to make his first court docket look on Dec. 9.
“The sexual abuse of an innocent child is something that should outrage our entire community and we will continue to do everything we can to continue to protect children from the monsters who seek to prey on them,” stated Orange County District Lawyer Todd Spitzer.
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