VISTA, Calif. — A man who broke into a Vista home and stole a 14-year-old girl’s underwear, then returned later and peered into her bedroom window, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
Efrain Omar Cristobal, 29, pleaded guilty Feb. 27 to residential burglary of an occupied house. Vista Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein sentenced the defendant — a Mexican national — to the upper term of six years, said Deputy District Attorney Lisa Stark.
The 14-year-old girl testified at an earlier hearing that she returned from school to her Dorsey Way home around 2:50 p.m. on Jan. 16 and found her bedroom windows open, the curtains flapping in the wind.
A renter came to her crying and said a man had been in the house, the girl testified. When the girl returned to her bedroom, she said she looked out the window and saw a long-haired man outside looking at her. The girl said the man, who she identified as Cristobal, moved the blinds out of the way and put his head through the window. She testified that she screamed, grabbed her little sister and ran from the residence.
Sheriff’s Deputy Douglas Downes testified that Cristobal was apprehended a couple of blocks away. When the deputy patted down the defendant, he said he found two unused condoms, the girl’s panties and a human hair preserved in clear tape.
