LONG BEACH, Calif.—A former Long Beach teacher was sentenced Oct. 17 to 80 years to life in state prison on sex-related charges involving three victims, including two former students, with a judge calling the defendant a “predator.”
Mark Anthony Santo, 54, was convicted June 5 of two counts of lewd act on a child under 14 and one count each of forcible sexual penetration, forcible oral copulation, assault with intent to commit forcible oral copulation, and assault with intent to commit forcible penetration—the latter two of which were vacated because they involved the same conduct as the more serious charges.
