DUBLIN — A San Leandro man has agreed to serve three years in prison for sexually abusing a teen girl he met through a cellphone game, court records show.
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Even after pleading no contest to sexual penetration with a foreign object, Bienvenido Penaranda, 28, remains out of jail. He is expected to surrender on his Oct. 5 sentencing date, court records show.
Penaranda was arrested last year after his victim, a 15-year-old girl, came forward to an official at her high school. He pleaded no contest to the single felony charge on May 26, records show.
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In addition to the prison term, he will be given a stay-away order from the victim and be required to register as a sex offender for 20 years, court records show.
Police said at the time of Penaranda’s arrest that he told her he could “get in trouble” when they met at a hotel, and that he memorialized his “progress” with the girl on a notes application on his phone, including “the day we became partners in Mobile Legends.” He allegedly told police he believed she was 16.
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