🌱 Homeland man gets 30 years to life for child sex crimes
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- Homeland man gets 30 years to life for child sex crimes
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📰 News we're reading
• Ex-school district janitor who sexually molested Elsinore girls gets 30 years to life (sbsun.com) — A Homeland resident and former Lake Elsinore Unified janitor has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for molesting two girls and possessing child pornography. Investigators tied him to explicit images stored in the cloud, then arrested him at his Homeland home in 2025. District officials say he has since been fired, though they won’t confirm where he worked. 
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🗞 Nearby News
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