Immokalee man gets 15 years for molesting 6 boys in unlicensed day care center

* By AISLING SWIFT
* Posted March 26, 2010 at 7:32 p.m. , updated March 27, 2010 at 11:17 a.m.

NAPLES — A 55-year-old Immokalee man charged with molesting six boys at a family day care center has been sentenced to 15 years in a state prison.

José Jesus Lara Flores was headed to trial Monday and faced life in prison, but accepted a plea bargain Friday to four concurrent 15-year prison terms and pleaded no contest to four counts of attempted sexual battery, a first-degree felony.

The plea was to a lesser-included charge under sexual battery and Collier Circuit Judge Fred Hardt sentenced him to the agreed-upon term, 15 years followed by 10 years of sex-offender probation if he’s not deported to Mexico. He’s not a U.S. citizen.

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