A Ventura businessman with a prior criminal strike on his record and a lengthy rap sheet of misdemeanor molestation charges was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after pleading no contest to fondling an 11-year-old boy in a San Mateo hotel hot tub earlier this year.
The term is Paul Robert Green's first stint in prison despite the 48-year-old man's history of misdemeanor molestation convictions. He will receive credit for four days served before posting $300,000 cash bail.
Green, 48, was originally charged with four counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old and four counts of child molestation. Green pleaded no contest to one felony count of annoying or molesting a child and admitted a prior strike in return for no more than four years in prison. If convicted by a jury, the businessman faced up to a decade in prison because of his prior record. Ventura County officials could also charge Green for being more than a year out of compliance with mandatory sex offender registration rules but have yet to do so.
Green stayed at a San Mateo hotel while on a business trip Jan. 17. While in the hotel Jacuzzi, he touched the boy in a sexual way and the boy fled, according to prosecutors. The police were notified and Green arrested. After being taken into custody, Green was discovered to have a 1989 conviction for committing a lewd act on a child in San Diego County.
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