Florida Babysitter Gets 20 Years for Molestation

(Tampa, Florida) In September 2007, a 23-year-old babysitter, Charity Sato, pleaded guilty to charges related to the molestation of an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl. Sato made the children pleasure her with a sex toy.

In May 2005, Sato had agreed to babysit overnight for the 11-year-old boy while his parents worked, Assistant State Attorney Kimberly Hindman said. The 13-year-old girl's mother asked whether Sato would babysit for her as well.

Sato found a sex toy in the house and asked the boy and girl to help her use it, Hindman said.

When a family friend confronted the 13-year-old girl about smoking cigarettes, she told him Sato had been having sex with her and the 11-year-old boy.

Sato also faced misdemeanor charges of providing alcohol and cigarettes to the children. Those charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement.

Yesterday, for convictions on charges of lewd and lascivious conduct, lewd and lascivious molestation and lewd and lascivious battery, Sato was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 10 years sex offender probation.