He was released in 1984 before he pleaded guilty in 1988 to 18 counts of lewd acts with a 9-year-old boy and was sentenced to 17 years in state prison. In 1996, Landau was paroled.

An Orange County Superior Court jury has denied a twice-convicted child molester’s request to be released from a Coalinga mental-health hospital. Sid Landau, now 85, asked to be released into ...