Man Given 10 Years in Molestation of Nieces

A Sun Valley man convicted of molesting his two young nieces was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in state prison.

San Fernando Superior Court Judge Dana Senit Henry also recommended that Kenneth Alty, 25, be given psychiatric treatment during his prison term. Alty was under periodic psychiatric care at Camarillo and Olive View mental health centers before his arrest, according to a probation report.

After a non-jury trial in September, Henry convicted Alty on three counts of committing a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 and on one count of oral copulation. At the trial, the girls testified that Alty molested them when they were visiting their grandmother’s house, where Alty lived.

According to Deputy Dist. Atty. Myron Jenkins, Alty molested one of his nieces during 1980, when the girl was 8. She did not report the incidents until after her cousin reported being molested by Alty in 1984 at the age of 7.

At the sentencing, family members and a family friend told Henry that they did not believe Alty had committed the crimes.

Alty told a probation officer that he believes the girls’ mothers “put them up to it,” or that they made up stories about being molested by him.