Ex-Custodian Who Sexually Molested Lake Elsinore Girls Sentenced

MURRIETA, CA — A former Lake Elsinore Unified School District janitor who molested two girls and was caught with child pornography was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in state prison.

David Robledo Jr., 38, of Homeland, pleaded guilty in August to two counts of lewd acts on a child and one count of possession of child porn, with a sentence-enhancing allegation of targeting multiple victims. In exchange for Robledo's admissions, prosecutors dropped four related charges against him.

During a hearing at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta Friday, Superior Court Judge Jeff Zimel imposed the sentence stipulated under the plea agreement.

According to the District Attorney's Office, in December 2024, Riverside County Child Exploitation Team — or RCCET — investigators were alerted via a tip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that a person residing in the county was loading explicit images of minors into a Cloud-based storage platform.

The ensuing probe resulted in the identification of Robledo as the account user, prosecutors said. Warrants were obtained and served at his property on Collin Drive, where evidence was seized and the defendant was taken into custody without incident on March 20, 2025.

The girls molested by Robledo were not identified, and the circumstances were not disclosed. The acts occurred in 2018, according to court documents.

It was unclear whether the children victimized were students in the Lake Elsinore Unified School District, which declined to identify at which campuses Robledo worked. He has since been terminated.

The defendant had no documented prior felony convictions.

RCCET is comprised of prosecutors, sheriff's personnel, officers from multiple municipal police agencies, along with staff from the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation and U.S. Marshals.