A Cobb County man will spend 15 years in prison, after admitting he had repeatedly sexually assaulted a little girl, officials say.
Assistant District Attorney Susan Treadaway said Thursday she was relieved Robert Enrique DeLeon finally stopped insisting his 7-year-old victim lied about the repeated sexual abuse.
“It’s sad that in so many cases like these, even after a conviction, the defendant persists with the theory that the child is lying,” Treadaway said.
The 52-year-old also admitted abusing the child’s mother years earlier.
“This plea today offered some closure because the defendant admitted, in his own words, not only that he perpetrated the acts against this girl, but also that he had sexually abused the child’s mother several years earlier, for which the statute of limitations has already passed,” Treadaway said.
DeLeon pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery, aggravated child molestation, child molestation and cruelty to children in the first degree, the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
Numerous time throughout 2009 and 2010, DeLeon assaulted a 7-year-old girl at a residence on Alexander Street in Smyrna. The abuse was reported to police in 2014, and the child told investigators the assaults occurred “uncountable” times.
Cobb Superior Court Judge Adele Grubbs sentenced DeLeon to serve 15 years in prison without the possibility of parole. After he serves that time, DeLeon will be on sex-offender probation for the rest of his life.
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