Juan Trejo Perez sentenced to a year in prison for third-degree child molestation

COLFAX — Juan Trejo Perez was sentenced to serve a year in prison for third-degree child molestation Friday morning at Whitman County Superior Court in Colfax. 

Whitman County Judge Gary Libey handed down the maximum sentence permissible by the state of Washington. The 34-year-old man was also ordered to a year in community custody and must register as a sex offender for the next 10 years. Libey approved a victim no contact order of five years. 

Trejo Perez was arrested last fall and convicted this April for molesting a teenage boy from Pullman.