Child molester gets 240 years in prison

A child sex offender is scheduled to spend the rest of his life in prison, sent there by a Montgomery County judge.

A jury on Tuesday sentenced Jose Diego Cruz-Escobar on eight counts — four counts each of aggravated sexual assault of a child and four counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact, according to information from the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.

Cruz-Escobar, 54, was accused of ongoing sexual abuse of the victim, who was 13 at the time. Prosecutors said he also sexually abused another child, who was 10. Cruz-Escobar, of El Salvador, has been arrested on charges of resisting arrest, assault of a police officer and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, officials said.

Judge Lisa Michalk sentenced Cruz-Escobar to a total of 240 years in prison. Michalk ordered that his sentences run consecutively, making his earliest date of parole in approximately 120 years.