SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When Frederick Everts was sentenced to 800 years to life in prison Friday for molesting three boys, ages 3, 9 and 11, the case's prosecutor gave the judge graphic descriptions of additional molestations in arguing for the maximum sentence.
Deputy District Attorney Steve Fein told Superior Court Judge Alfonso Fernandez that there have been many other victims in addition to the three boys Everts, 36, molested in San Jose between 2002 and 2005.
"He has admitted to over 40 victims over the course of his life ... including his biological son, who he orally copulated when he was 3 months old," Fein said.
Everts did not speak during the sentencing hearing. Nor did any of his victims address the court.
Everts was convicted approximately a year ago of the San Jose molestations. At the time of the molestations he was sharing a house with convicted serial child molester Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller. Schwartzmiller also molested one of Everts' victims. (Everts and Schwartzmiller pictured)
Everts' attorney, Steve Woodsom, argued that his client did not deserve to receive a harsher sentence than Schwartzmiller, whom authorities have called one of the most prolific child molesters in history.
Schwartzmiller was sentenced last month to 152 years to life in prison for the molestations he committed at the Vineyard Drive home he shared with Everts between 2002 and 2005.
"There are mitigating factors that I would not hesitate to say did not apply in the Schwartzmiller case," Woodson said.
Woodson cited Everts' cooperation with police and his expression of remorse for his actions, neither of which occurred with Schwartzmiller.
Fein argued that he treated both men equally by asking for the maximum possible sentence in each case.
"I'm asking that Mr. Everts be treated exactly the same as Mr. Schwartzmiller. Mr. Schwartzmiller was sentenced to the maximum allowed under the law," Fein said.
Fernandez ultimately sentenced Everts to less than the maximum possible 1,175 years to life in prison because it was unclear whether a number of the 17 felony counts were committed on separate occasions or at the same time as some of the other molestation charges.
A 12-year-old boy, identified only as "M" in court records, testified that Schwartzmiller molested him "more than 20 times." He also confirmed that Schwartzmiller took sexually explicit pictures of him in the bedroom of the man's Vineyard Drive home.
The boy also testified that he lied to police about what Schwartzmiller told him after he discovered a sticky substance on his body one morning.
Friday, February 09, 2007
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