Pedro Ocampo Alvarez, 58, of Oxnard, was convicted Nov. 4 on 11 felony counts involving a 10-year-old girl, KTLA reported. The outlet said the girl lived in the main house on a property where Alvarez occupied a converted shed, and that neighbors alerted her mother after reporting they had seen him touch the child.
According to KTLA, the girl told police the abuse had been going on for about a year. Alvarez remains in custody without bail, and a sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 14; KTLA reported that he faces a maximum sentence of 74 years and eight months to life in state prison.
Other local cases are not direct sentencing comparisons
Two separate Ventura County cases illustrate why sentence figures should be read in the context of each case’s charges and history. The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office reported that Oxnard resident Marcelino Arias Arca received 480 years to life in April 2025 after convictions involving two child victims and prior molestation convictions. In another case, the office reported that Micah Lanere Smith was sentenced to 63 years to life in March 2025 for offenses against two underage household members between 2006 and 2017 in Oxnard and Thousand Oaks.
Those were distinct cases with different victims, offenses and circumstances. Their imposed sentences are not predictions of Alvarez’s eventual sentence; the figure reported in his case is a maximum he faces, with sentencing still to come.
County describes a child-abuse investigation and support network
Separately, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office describes Safe Harbor as a coalition of public and private agencies that assists child-abuse investigations and provides services to victims. The program operates multidisciplinary interview centers in Ventura and Simi Valley, according to the office’s Safe Harbor information; that description does not establish whether Safe Harbor or either center was involved in Alvarez’s case.
