Ridgefield child molester sentenced to 16.5 years

A Ridgefield man previously convicted of raping a young girl was sentenced Friday to 16½ years in prison for molesting another girl.

In early January, a Clark County Superior Court jury found Juan Gabriel Fregoso Uribe, 48, guilty of indecent liberties with forcible compulsion and first-degree child molestation.

The sentence will run concurrently with a 26½-year prison sentence he was already serving in the earlier case, court records show.

The victim in this case was interviewed in January 2019 after her mother reported the crimes. The girl, 11, said Fregoso Uribe forced her to touch him inappropriately on multiple occasions in 2016 while they were at his house, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

“He told me, ‘Don’t tell no one or I will go to jail,’ ” the girl told investigators, according to the affidavit.

In May 2018, Fregoso Uribe was convicted by a Clark County Superior Court jury of first-degree rape of a child, three counts of first-degree child molestation and indecent liberties with forcible compulsion in a 2017 case involving an 8-year-old girl.