A former guard at San Quentin State Prison has been sentenced to life behind bars after multiple convictions of child sexual assault, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office said Friday.
Richard Phillip Bardouski, 66, was ordered to serve 165 years to life on Friday by Napa County Superior Court Judge Elia Ortiz.
Following an eight-day jury trial in June, Bardouski was found guilty of sexual intercourse with a child under 10, sexual penetration with a child under 10, lewd or lascivious acts upon a child 14 or under, and a lewd or lascivious act upon a child 14 or 15.
While working for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, between 2010 and 2015, Bardouski sexually assaulted three children in his family — one when she was 14, and two at his home in west Napa when they were between 4 and 9 years old. The victims came forward in 2023.
Bardouski was employed as a corrections officer with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 1997 to 2022, according to CDCR. Following his retirement from San Quentin in 2022, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he was arrested in 2024.
“While I cannot give these girls their childhoods back or undo the immense pain they’ve suffered, I hope today’s sentence and having the opportunity to have their voices heard gives them a sense of justice and is a big step toward closing this chapter in their lives,” Deputy District Attorney Shashawnya Worley said in a statement.
In addition to the prison sentence, Ortiz ordered Bardouski to pay $950,000 in restitution to his three victims for their emotional suffering.