Woman who sexually abused Banning boy sentenced
City News Service
BANNING, Calif. (KESQ) – A 32-year-old Banning woman who engaged in sex acts with a boy over a months-long period was sentenced today to three years’ felony probation and six months in a work release program.
Reyna Virginia Rincon pleaded guilty in April to lewd acts on a child under 14 years old under a pretrial agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for her admission, prosecutors dropped charges of unlawful intercourse with a minor, oral copulation of a minor and perpetrating three or more lewd acts on an underage person.
During a hearing at the Banning Justice Center Monday, Superior Court Judge Jay Kiel certified the terms of the plea deal and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense. In addition to probation and work release in lieu of jail, the judge ordered Rincon to register as a sex offender under Penal Code section 290, which prohibits registrants from working around kids or having any contact with them outside of relatives.
Kiel further signed a criminal protective order, barring the defendant from communicating with the victim for a decade.
According to the Banning Police Department, investigators received information on June 28, 2023, that a youth “was being sexually abused” by the defendant.
Agency spokeswoman Sol Avila said detectives learned Rincon was a “family friend who frequented” the victim’s home.
“(Investigators) also discovered that the abuse had been occurring since September 2022,” Avila said.
The criminal complaint indicated the defendant had been seeing the boy without his family’s knowledge, sometimes going behind closed doors in his bedroom, “gratifying her lust, passions and sexual desires.”
Detectives obtained sufficient evidence to procure an arrest warrant, which was served on Rincon without incident at her apartment on Westward Avenue in early July 2023.
She had no documented prior felony convictions.
The work release program requires her to be employed, engaged in community service, in school or some type of vocational training for 180 days.