Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Tuesday, Oct. 28, that a Bronx janitor was sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing a 2nd grader at a Bronx public school.

“The defendant grabbed a little girl and abused her in what should been a haven for children,” the district attorney said. “He will spend five years in prison and register as a sex offender for violating a child.”

Clark said the defendant, Cesar Ortega Licona, 45, of Yonkers, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison plus five years post release supervision by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Laurence Busching. She said the defendant must also register as a sex offender. Licona pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse on Sept. 9.

According to the investigation, on Dec. 17, 2024, at around 3.45 p

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