Bay Area man gets 170 years to life for sexually abusing two children

A Solano County man likely will die in state prison after a judge on Thursday sentenced him to 170 years to life for sexually abusing two children.

Javier Mendez-Alvaro, 35, heard Judge Wendy Getty hand down the prison term during a morning hearing in Department 8 in the Justice Center in Fairfield, according to a press statement from the Solano County District Attorney’s Office.

After the sentencing, which followed a monthlong trial beginning in late June, the judge scheduled a...