Kidnapper pleads guilty in second case

A Pueblo man serving 30 years for kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from her walk home from school in 2012 pleaded guilty in a separate case this week.

Our partners at the Chieftain report Jose Humberto Garcia will serve 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted second-degree kidnapping and a misdemeanor charge of unlawful sexual contact.

Garcia was convicted in May 2013 for a January 2012 incident in which the young girl was able to get free from him and alert authorities at a Colorado Springs convenience store.

But police said Garcia took another young girl, whom he knew, out of the school earlier that day, drove her to his East Side home and sexually assaulted her there before returning her to school.

In the first case, Garcia was convicted by a jury of second-degree kidnapping, sexual assault on a child and child abuse.

Garcia was sentenced to 24 years on the kidnapping charge and another six years to life for the sexual assault.

Under this week’s plea agreement, Garcia will serve 15 years for the attempted kidnapping charge and one year in jail on the sexual contact charge.

You can read more about the case in today’s Pueblo Chieftain.