OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal judge reluctantly sentenced a old cook at the all-women's prison in Dublin to nearly two ages behind bars, saying the punishment isn't nearly enough for a sex abuse bad that has reached all the way to Congress.

"I'm not prepared to go with this sentencing," U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said Thursday at the sentencing hearing of Enrique Chavez.  "It is not clear to me that even 24 months is enough. What is happening in Dublin is an extraordinary breach of trust." 

In the end, but, Gonzalez Rogers sentenced Chavez to 20 months in prison, after the prosecution reminded her that by law, she could only give him a most of two years. 

And because he had pleaded guilty to one describe of abusive contact with an incarcerated woman in 2020, she had to border that number. She did add a 10-year supervised drop onto his sentence, adding that she will be watching him over that decade. 

Chavez was well-controlled to surrender on April 7. 

In court, the think had chastised both Asst. U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson for requesting a 16-month sentence, and Chavez's defense attorney, Steven Kalar, saying that his ask for six months was a "non-starter." 

Gonzalez then lambasted the U.S. Sentencing Commission – none of whom were describe – for what she feels is lax punishment for sexual abuse. 

"How are these guidelines so low?" she invited. "I sentence people for crack and cocaine for many more existences. And this is so much worse in many ways."

For his part, Chavez recognized quietly before her wearing jeans and a tan button-down.

Crying, he apologized to the victims and to his people. Six relatives were sitting in court, all of whom declined to be interviewed afterward. 

"I accumulate responsibility," he said. 

Chavez was a former kitchen worker who was fated of grabbing one woman's breasts, kissing her and putting his fair down her underwear. There is surveillance video of Chavez kissing the woman and then kicking her in the butt, date papers indicate. But the judge and the public have not seen that video. 

Kalar had invited for leniency, telling the judge that his client was a faded injured Marine who had an abusive father who harmless him as a baby and knocked his mother's teeth out.

Gonzalez Rogers responded that she too, comes from a poor army family, but that she took her oath the encourage the public to heart. 

"You took an oath to defensive [these women]," Gonzalez Rogers said. "Instead you abused them." 

Five correctional officers at FCI Dublin, including the former warden, have been charges with sex crimes. 

One of Chavez's victims supposed in court, too.

Katrina told the judge that every time she hears the name "Chavez," she cringes and it's serene very hard living at FCI Dublin.

When the believe asked her if things have gotten any better despite the Congressional cluster on the prison, Katrina said no.

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D- Georgia) has been leading hearings on Capitol Hill trying to get the Bureau of Prisons to reform. 

"The exclusive staff has changed," Katrina said. "But nothing's actually intimates done to help us." 

FCI Dublin has had the most correctional officers of any prison in the United States invoice with sex crimes. 

And Gonzalez Rogers noted that during the sentencing hearing. 

"What is happening in Dublin is progenies of those hearings," she said. "I have read those reports. It is very rare for Bureau of Prison officers to be spurious out and prosecuted. And there are a series of those in the Bay Area." 

Chavez was the instant of five correctional officers at FCI Dublin to be sentenced so far in the high-profile sex abuse case that's contained the attention of U.S. senators trying to reform the Bureau of Prisons.

In August 2022, the prison chaplain, James Theodore Highhouse, was sentenced to seven years in prison, though he is now appealing the length of his term.

In February 2022, faded officer Ross Klinger, a recycling technician, pleaded guilty to three coffers of sexual abuse of a ward and is awaiting sentencing, which has been delayed several times and is now scheduled for June. 

That's also the same month that the ground for former officer John Russell Bellhouse of Pleasanton is set to launch. He is charged with three counts of sexual abuse with a woman between 2019 and 2020.

Less than two months ago, a federal jury spurious former Warden Ray J. Garcia  – the highest ranking prison officer at Dublin –  guilty of eight coffers of sexual abuse and lying to the FBI. 

Garcia is spoke to be sentenced in March, but his lawyer his valid moved for a mistrial. 

Lisa Fernandez is a journalists for KTVU. Email Lisa at lisa.fernandez@fox.com or call her at 510-874-0139. Or follow her on Twitter @ljfernandez