A Texas man, who escaped from jail 26 years ago while awaiting sentencing for a sexual assault of a Turlock girl, has been sentenced to prison. Juan Carlos Barriga, 44, was sentenced on Dec. 18 in Stanislaus County Superior Court to two years and eight months for the 1990 assault and subsequent escape, according to court records. Barriga was originally arrested in 1990 for an attack on a 17-year-old girl at her Turlock home on Vermont Avenue.
Decades old assault sends man to prison