John Rodriguez, tried for stroking his penis at girls walking to school and grabbing one of them, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges today and was sentenced to a year in jail, five years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender.
The 6-foot-1, 350-pound, 20-year-old dental assistant copped to four misdemeanor counts
of child annoyance, one misdemeanor count of indecent exposure and one
misdemeanor count of false imprisonment.
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Rodriguez roamed Santa Ana, Fountain Valley and Westminster for victims, some of whom the court heard today, according to an Orange County District Attorney's office statement on the conviction and sentencing:
During the sentencing today, victim impact statements were submitted to
the court by Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #5. Jane Doe #1 wrote, “This crime
changed me a lot because now I do not help others because I can't trust
strangers. Sometimes at night I can't sleep because I feel like that
man is going to come in through my window. My mom doesn't let me walk to
school because she is scared that it could happen again. I don't want
to be scared, but I can't help it.”
Jane Doe #5 wrote, “This incident has affected my family, friends,
community, and I in so many ways. Now when I walk home.I panic that
someone else could do [the same thing], and this time rape me. I don't
like to go out much [now] because I'm scared that something bad could
happen to me.”
Jane Doe #1 is a 15-year-old girl was walking to Los Amigos High School the morning of Jan. 25 when Rodriguez pulled up at Newhope Street
and Opal Avenue in Fountain Valley in his black 2009 Toyota Camry and asked for directions to Mile Square Park. As she began to provide the information, he pulled down the front of his
shorts and exposed his little dental instrument. He also seemed bound to eventually tell the girl to spit as he reached out and
grabbed her wrist.
Fortunately, the girl was able to get away, run to her school and file a sexual assault report with the Fountain Valley
Police Department.
Jane Doe #5 is a 16-year-old girl Rodriguez approached in much the same way on Aug. 11, as she was walking to Valley High School. Along Edinger Avenue, the burly brute asked through his car window if the girl wanted a ride. When she refused and kept walking, Rodriguez drove up next to her again and asked, “Want some dick?” He then whipped out his toothpick and started stroking it.
The girl ran to a group of women crossing the street nearby before later reporting the incident to Santa Ana Unified School District police. She later recognized Rodriguez from media coverage of his first four
victims.
In the other cases, Rodriguez stroked his penis in front of 17- and 14-year-old sisters walking to Los Amigos High on Feb. 18 and exposed his J-Rod to an 18-year-old woman walking to La Quinta High School in
Westminster on Aug. 16, asking her “How about some of this?”
The lifetime sex offender status will keep Rodriguez out of city and regional Orange County parks that have passed bans on pervs entering them. Of course, the are no laws keeping such creepers out of 2009 black Camrys on city streets.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.