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A former Moreno Valley Unified School Board member convicted of 23 felonies, including pimping and pandering, was sentenced on Friday to serve more than 14 years in state prison.
A Riverside Superior Court judge sentenced Mike Luis Rios, 42, to serve 14 years, four months during a hearing on in a Riverside courtroom on Friday. Once Rios has served half the time, he will be eligible for parole.
A jury found Rios guilty on Feb. 8 of 12 counts of pimping, six counts of insurance fraud, and five pandering counts. The jury did not convict him on two rape charges.
Pandering is the attempt to get someone to work as a prostitute while pimping is deriving
proceeds from someone working as a prostitute.
Officials are expected next week to discuss removing Rios from the school board and whether a special election will be held to replace him. He continued to serve as a member, participating in meetings up to and during his trial.
Rios was arrested in the case on April 4, 2012, outside his Moreno Valley home.
He was charged with three counts of pimping and six counts of pandering, accusing him of persuading or encouraging four women and two underage girls to work for him as prostitutes.
Prosecutors said that three adult women worked for Rios as prostitutes. One other adult woman and two juvenile girls who he tried to have work for him as prostitutes did not, prosecutors said.
Rios told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in a phone interview from jail that someone was falsely accusing him of crimes to prevent him from running for Moreno Valley City Council.
The insurance fraud counts involve Rios filing false insurance claims following a vehicle accident.
Rios has another pending case in which he is charged with two counts of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and influencing testimony by bribe.
That case is pending trial and the next court date is for a trial readiness conference on April 12.
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I was going to exclaim, "why not a life sentence?" given the disgusting nature of the charges he was found guilty on before realizing that the prison population does seem to have its own way of dealing with these people. Perhaps a truer punishment will be meted out before he is eligible for parole.
I was going to say the same, we just convicted a guy here in Texas for pretty much the same thing, he got a life sentence here without parole.
I agree, life sentence. Is this one of the wonderful illegals that we allowed to stay in 1986 or a child of one of them. American has enough perverts of its own, we don't need more them from Mexico or anywhere else. I hope prison takes care of this worthless person. All these states going no death sentence, well, I think they should bring back hanging and put that on YouTube. Maybe it will make people stop and think about what their actions bring on.
Nice guy.
you know, he's a waste of fertile reproductive material. he should also be castrated because planet earth ain't short on people. consider it chlorine for the gene pool.
So which is it? Is he a "former school board member" or is he "facing removal"?
14 yrs not enough. Life would be better.
School board member aint easy. Or is it pimpin?
They only come here for the jobs nobody else wants, so I'm told by our government and big business. I guess this is one of those jobs nobody else wanted. I wonder if his job will be waiting for him when he gets out. seeing as how our system works I would say yes.
Come from where? The same cesspool you do?
Tarzan7
Great point! Wow, you are spot-on! As if we the people are not aware of what is happening around us. Our government is allowing this @!$%#, as if we do not have enough problems our government is allowing illegal aliens and or green card people to come into our country and committee crimes against children. Send him back to where they sent his wife and never allow them into our country again.
Hopefully he will be given another 14 year sentence for the other pending charges so he ends up in the joint for the better part of 30 years. This guy is scum and has no business on the street. The up side of him hitting the slam is that it is very possible that the table will be turned on him and he will be on the receiving end of the pimp game working as somebody's bitch where they will be trading him for a pack of smokes and or some weed. Eventually he may like his new found life and get female hormone injections so he can grow some breast and develop some curves so he shows better for the prison population.
The public school system, from the highest levels to the lowest, is rife with illicit sexual deviance! So is the ret of the world for that matter. If this story was about this same situation in the Catholic, or any, church, the liberals would be all over it with cries of how corrupt the church is. But since this story is about the public school system, a sacred cow of the liberal elite, and their pandering followers, I'll bet we don't hear much of anything. These stories of public school teachers come out nearly daily, but how much outcry do you here? I'm saying the behavior described in this story, and other types of illicit sexual behavior, is immoral and evil in any scenario, but where is the outcry from the left? The calls for reform? The calls for justice for those abused in the public school systems of our country? The vast majaroirty of Catholic priests are honorable men, as are the vast majority of public school teachers, but the two are treated very differently by the left.
The difference is that school board members and public school teachers do not claim to be the defenders of morality or pandering an exclusive path to heaven, unlike Catholic priests. If your claim is that Catholic priests are no worse than anyone else (though based on the statistics that there were child molesting priests in every single diocese in the US, even that claim is shaky) then Christianity really isn't working is it? The whole point that Christians seem to make is that they are more moral because they are following God and it is clear that even the priests who are dedicated to following God are hardly more moral. Why does the Catholic Church exist anymore at all?
This is a ridiculously long sentence. First of all, prostitution should be legal and the 2 "juvenile girls", what are we talking about here? A 16 or 17 yr old? The age of consent should be lowered to 16 anyway.
14 yrs??? Christ, use that prison space for the real criminals, like the damned politicians.
Well, considering he was a politician, it actually makes perfect sense.
Who could argue with that? After all, charging others for the privilege of screwing people you ruined may very well be one of the defining actions of a successful politician.
I have to agree. He asked women if they wanted a job, which should be legal anyway (consenting adults). The younger girls said "No" and he left them alone. I don't get the calls for execution in these comments. I think people just like to be angry.
Another sicko that doesn't deserve to breathe air on Earth!
Truth is stranger than fiction.
What has American CULTURE and CIVILIZATION come to? They are becoming more and more decadent.
Such fine and upstanding citizens get voted into office every day. Why is this any different than most of the people in congress?
Such fine and upstanding citizens get voted into office every day. Why is this any different than most of the people in congress?
"Officials are expected next week to discuss removing Rios from the school board..." So his being convicted on these charges doesn't mean he's automatically removed from the school board? There's nothing written into the school board rules that if a board member if convicted of a felony(s), particularly ones involving sex or minors, they're not automatically terminated? Seems like some rules and contracts need to be rethought and rewritten after this.
California public education at its finest, really . . .
Really! :-o
Can they really remove him from the school board for this?
Will he lose his pension plan? I cannot believe the draconian
rules in California! He should be forgiven and get a mulligan.
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And this is why I moved out of the San Bernadino and Riverside counties. If the 909 is the armpit of California, the Mentone/Redlands/Yucaipa/Yucca area is the armpit of the 909. Some people there have family trees that are a straight line where they're their own uncles. Our icecream truck driver was arrested for dealing heroin and acid to the students at the Univ of Redlands. When I worked the ER at a hospital out that way, we had a lot of meth lab explosion injuries since it used to be the meth capital of the world.
This guy? I say it facetiously, but that's your average Joe in this county.