Previously deported immigrant from Mexico sentenced for sexually assaulting young girl

35-year-old Avimael Lopez admitted to one count of force oral copulation on a child under ten.

Lopez was caught in the act assaulting the young girl in a bathroom stall at the Riverside restaurant where he worked as a cook.

He's been sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison.

According to ICE officials, Lopez was deported back to Mexico in 2010.

It's unclear when he came back into the US.

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