LEE COUNTY, Fla. — A sex offender was sentenced again for both sexual battery upon a child less than 12 years of age and lewd or lascivious molestation according to the State's Attorney Office.
In March 2021, the Lee County Sheriff's Office began an investigation after a young child told an adult about a past crime Guillermo Garcia Hembree committed on the victim.
On Tuesday morning Hembree was sentenced to life in prison following a four-day trial in Lee County.
Hembree was already a convicted sex offender for an offense that occurred in Georgia in 2005.
