In some instances in California, a sex crime conviction counts as a strike on your criminal record. If it is serious enough to be labeled a "1 strike" case, you could be penalized with 25 years to a life of prison time on the first conviction. Each strike a person accumulates adds additional time to their sentence. A third strike automatically puts the defendant at risk of a sentence of 25 years to life in prison. If you are convicted of sexual assault or a sex-related crime in San Diego County, you face jail, child custody and visitation loss, loss of rights to vote and own guns or firearms, be subjected to mandatory AIDS testing, financial penalties, counseling, probation, parole, and lifetime sex offender registration and tracking.