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What happened
John France Gonzales Age: 23 former pharmacy technician Gonzales met the girl in 2000, when she was 10 years old and living in San Bruno with her aunt, whom Gonzales was dating, according to former defense attorney Jeffery Neubarth. Gonzales molested the girl for the first time when she was 12 and maintained his relationship with the girl for several years while she lived in San Bruno and with her grandmother in Healdsburg. Gonzales allegedly took the girl from her grandmother's home in August 2005 and told her that she could not return, eventually moving her into a bedroom at his parents' Daly City home in October 2005, according to prosecutors. The girl remained with Gonzales until October 2006 when Gonzales' parents' home was foreclosed on, forcing Gonzales to move out and return the girl to her family. A few weeks after returning home, she told members of her family of her ordeal. The victim, who prosecutors say initially went willingly to Gonzales' home, reportedly told authorities she and Gonzales had sexual relations more than 500 times in five counties. Gonzales held the girl captive in the basement of his parents’ Daly City home for 18 months. John Paule France Gonzales smuggled food into his locked room and disposed of the girl's feces in plastic bags to keep her hidden from his parents, prosecutors said. "He used threats to himself, to her and to her family members to either play upon her sympathies or scare her into having sex with him for years," McKowan said. "Did he put her in chains and lock her in a bedroom and never let her out? No," Pitt said. But "because of his perverted sexual assaults on her over time, she was scared. He threatened at various times to kill her, he threatened to kill her family and he threatened to kill himself if she left him."
Response and intervention
John France Gonzales, of Daly City, was charged with 146 felony counts in 2006 relating to the alleged abuse from 2002 to 2006. He had until Wednesday to accept a plea deal offered by the county’s District Attorney’s Office or face a trial starting July 28. He chose to accept the deal Wednesday, pleading no contest to 14 felony counts in exchange for the remaining 132 to be dropped, assistant District Attorney Morley Pitt said. Gonzales will face a maximum of 20 years in state prison, Pitt said. The victim is currently living with her family, prosecutors said. http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_9834996 http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime-ampamp-punishment-man-pleads-no-contest-four-year-abuse-case?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C1 http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-11-22/bay-area/17321448_1_girl-s-abuse-prosecutors-gonzales-attorney