LAKEPORT, Calif. – A Lakeport man has been sentenced to 28 years in state prison for child molestation.

On Monday, Judge Andrew Blum handed down the 28-year sentence to David Edward Carr, 50.

Carr had pleaded no contest to four separate charges of child molestation involving two victims on July 8, according to the Lake County District Attorney’s Office.

Carr’s victims were both girls under the age of 14 when the molestations occurred, officials said.

Investigative reports and evidence submitted at the preliminary hearing showed that the first known victim disclosed to her mother early this past January that Carr had molested her on numerous occasions beginning in 2006, when she was 6, and continued to sometime in 2010, based on a District Attorney’s Office report.

The victim also described seeing what may have been child pornography on Carr’s cell phone, according to the report.

Carr was arrested on Jan. 5 and charged with one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, the District Attorney’s Office said.

Officials said Det. Todd Dunia of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office seized Carr’s computer, a camera and a cell phone. Dunia obtained a search warrant for the devices submitted them for a forensic examination to the Northern California Computer Crimes Task Force.

The examination of the computer revealed a series of time-stamped photographs of a young girl. In all of the photographs, the girl appeared to be asleep. In several of those photographs, Carr was shown touching the sleeping girl inappropriately, officials said.

The investigation established that the photographs were taken with Carr’s camera and were recovered from both the camera and the computer. Based on these photographs, three additional counts of lewd act on a minor, one count of possession of child and one count of manufacturing child pornography were added to the charges against him, based on the complaint.

The District Attorney’s Office said it reached a plea agreement with Carr in which he was sentenced to eight years in state prison for count two, lewd act on a minor, and two subordinate terms of two years each for counts three and four, which also were for molestation.

Carr was sentenced to a full consecutive term of 16 years for count one, continuous sexual abuse of a child, for an aggregate term of 28 years, the District Attorney’s Office said.

Because all of the counts to which Carr pleaded are considered violent felonies, Carr will have to serve 85 percent of his sentence. If and when he is released, Carr will be required to register as a sex offender, the District Attorney’s Office said.

The victims have received services through the District Attorney’s Office’s Victim-Witness program.

The lead investigator was sheriff’s Det. Todd Dunia, with sheriff’s Det. Kellie Joseph conducting the forensic interview of the victim. The District Attorney’s Office commended Dunia and Joseph for what it said was an excellent investigation.

Carr was represented by attorney Douglas Rhoades. The case was prosecuted by Senior Deputy District Attorney Ed Borg.