SANTA ANA – A 28-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison for molesting three girls, including two in a bounce house at a birthday party in Anaheim.

Fernando Apaez pleaded guilty Sept. 25 to four felony counts of forcible lewd acts on a child.

According to police testimony at his preliminary hearing, Apaez molested a 6-year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl in a bounce house Oct. 27, 2018, during a boy’s birthday party in the 200 block of East Clifton Avenue.

Apaez also sexually assaulted a 9-year-old girl he babysat from May through August 2018, police testified.

The defendant, who has 2,816 days credit for time already served behind bars, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

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