A federal judge has imposed a 14-year prison term on a Tucson area man for abusive sexual contact with a child.
Emmanuel Ahumada Flores, 32, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Jennifer G. Zipps in U.S. District Court in Tucson.Β
Flores "admitted to engaging in abusive sexual contact with a child under the age of 12 between January 2013 and August 2015," Β a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office said.
The case came to the attention of authorities in 2015 when the Pascua Yaqui Police Department responded to a report of two men fighting on the Yaqui reservation, court records show.
"In the course of investigating the fight between the two men, officers learned that the reason they were fighting was over a little girl... who had been molested by both of them," said a sentencing memorandum from the federal prosecutor in the case. The girl was "between six and eight years old" at the time, court records said
Flores and the child are both tribal members. The girl now is a ward of the state and lives with a foster family, authorities said.
Flores was originally charged with one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of abusvie sexual contact with a child, for which he could have faced 20-plus years in prison if convicted. He received the Β 14-year penalty as part of a plea deal after agreeing to plead guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact.
The government's sentencing memo said Flores was deemed at "high risk" of reoffending in a sex offender evaluation prepared by the federal probation department.
