A registered sex offender who attacked a girl in the restroom of a Riverside elementary school faces 15 years to life in state prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child younger than 10 years old.
Logan Allen Nighswonger, 34, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9 in Superior Court in Riverside after the May 29 plea that he negotiated with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. The judge will have the final say on the length of the sentence.
As a condition of his plea, felony charges of committing a lewd act with a child under 14 with force, and assault with intent to commit mayhem, as well as a misdemeanor count of illegally entering school grounds, are scheduled to be dropped, said John Hall, a DA’s Office spokesman.
Nighswonger will serve that sentence at the same time as one he will receive in a separate case for pleading guilty on May 29 to a charge of possession of child pornography, Hall said.