Filemon Huizar will spend 20 years to life in prison for breaking into a co-worker's home and molesting two girls.

Despite Huizar's claim that alcohol prevented him from remembering what he'd done, 3rd District Judge Judith Atherton sentenced Huizar to consecutive terms of 15 years to life and five years to life in prison.It is likely Huizar could be deported if he's released from prison. The 27-year-old Mexican national faces a possible five-year federal prison term for illegally re-entering the United States.

Huizar, 27, pleaded guilty Feb. 16 to aggravated burglary and child kidnapping, both first-degree felonies. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped sodomy on a child and two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, all first-degree felonies.

His prison sentence was the maximum allowed under Utah law.

Huizar was also ordered to pay any counseling costs of his two victims, cousins who are 3 and 5 years old.

The mother of the 5-year-old girl told police she awoke at 2 a.m. on Nov. 14, 1999, to find Huizar in bed with her undressed daughter.

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After a neighborhood watch volunteer came to the house, the 3-year-old girl was also discovered missing. She was later found in the back yard.

Huizar was charged after the 3-year-old girl told her father the man who molested her works with him. The girl then identified Huizar in a photograph taken at a company softball game, said prosecutor Susan Hunt.

"After police left she told the dad that it was Filemon," Hunt said.

After the incident, police chased someone from the scene but were unable to catch him. During the chase, however, the man left behind the jacket he was wearing. Police noticed the recovered jacket was identical to one Huizar wore in the work photograph, Hunt said.

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