Caretaker pleads guilty to sexually harassing disabled woman

A caregiver pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for sexually abusing a disabled woman at a nursing facility in Mission Viejo.

Gil Franco Carpentero, 66, of Tustin, pleaded guilty to two counts of committing a lewd act on a dependent adult by a caregiver.

A woman reported that Carpentero sexually abused her on Dec. 20, 2021, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. When Carpentero was arrested two years ago, he had been caring for mentally and developmentally disabled adults for the past decade, sheriff’s investigators said.