A Brinks Armored Car company guard spent Christmas Eve 2011 threatening a Harbor Boulevard prostitute in Santa Ana with a Taser, tying her up, raping her and later telling a detective, "I did tie her up. I want to man up. I've been carrying this around with me."That was revealed in Orange County Sup ... More >>
Trial was scheduled to begin today for Richard Alan Nolan, a nurse accused of sexually assaulting two male patients at Anaheim's Western Medical Center.Charged in 2010 with five felonies ranging from sexual battery on an institutionalized victim to oral copulation, the 47-year-old made bail and has ... More >>
[Moxley Confidential] Three men, including a brazen public-library abuser, get punished for kiddie porn
Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Miguel Lerma Jr. pleaded guilty today to forcibly raping one woman and raping a second who passed out after too much alcohol.The 33-year-old Fountain Valley resident, who faced up to 32 years in state prison based on an April 2011 statement from pro ... More >>
Alex Bassinne has accepted a plea deal that has the 50-year-old former math teacher in Santa Ana schools pleading guilty to molesting two teen girls and possessing child porn in exchange for a one-year jail sentence, three years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender. If Bassinne h ... More >>
With a name like Pinkney, he has to be heading to prison for the rest of his life.Yes, 68-year-old Santa Anan Pinkney Harold Badgett, who pleaded guilty Friday to molesting children ages 18 months through 11 and possessing a cache of kiddie porn, has been sentenced in Orange County Superior Court to ... More >>
Make it two-for-two today in sentences for male health care workers guilty of sexually assaulting older ladies in their care. Nurse's assistant Alejandro Arias, 40, of Cypress, was sent to state prison for 21 years for his disgusting acts on two women, ages 50 and 60, in his care at Anaheim Terrace ... More >>
Back in the day, Bruce Jennings was a famous gunsmith whose Costa Mesa-based company Bryco Arms was one of the so-called "Ring of Fire" companies that built cheap "Saturday Night Special" handguns that were often used by criminals during the cocaine-fueled homicide wave that plagued America's i ... More >>
Former Irvine youth soccer coach Robert Vincent Peace changed his not guilty plea to possessing piles of child porn--including sexually explicit photos he coerced out of 13- and 14-year-old girls he met in chat rooms--to an admission of guilt, earning an eight-year, eight-month prison term and lifet ... More >>
A former official with an Ohio high school's music booster club pleaded not guilty in Orange County Superior Court this week to possessing child pornography.William F. Blackhall , 50, of Columbus, Ohio, was arrested in Newport Beach in July when a colleague on a business trip alerted authorities the ... More >>
It's the nightmare of every parent with a teen daughter: she's driving the family minivan home in the wee hours of the morning when a registered sex offender follows her, causes a minor crash and, once she's out of the vehicle, sexually assaults her.For this brazen act of scumbaggery, Rasaan Raymon ... More >>
When we Gazed our Navel on MySpace rapist Jason Ara Erpinar and his unicorn-follicle horn being tried the first time in August 2011, we received comments from his pals claiming there is no way the Yorba Linda 23-year-old sexually assaulted three woman, that we were out to get him and that his victim ... More >>
Anaheim 23-year-old Raul Barrientos was convicted Monday of raping and sexually assaulting a woman with severe mental and physical disabilities in a Fullerton College men's restroom.After pleading guilty to two felony counts of forcible digital penetration and one felony count each of forcible rap ... More >>
A pastor was convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting five boys in his Lake Forest apartment. Oscar D. Perez Perez, a 69-year-old Lake Forest man, was found guilty by a jury of 22 felony counts of lewd acts on a child under 14, four felony counts of lewd acts on a child, and sentencing enhanc ... More >>
A sick fuck who caused a car accident so he could get at the 17-year-old girl behind the wheel and try to rape her roadside was found guilty by an Orange County Superior Court jury today of various criminal charges that could send him to prison for life.Perris 31-year-old Rasson Raymon Patton was do ... More >>
Sekayi Rudo White was sentenced today to 112 years to life in state prison for raping five women and sexually assaulting a sixth. The 34-year-old Lake Forest man was found guilty by a jury in February of 14 felony counts, Jurors found White guilty of 14 felony counts, including attempted rape and ... More >>
The Orange County District Attorney's office today filed additional charges against Charles Patrick Drew, the 62-year-old transient, two-striker and registered sex offender accused of committing OC's eighth murder of the year. Joining the previously filed felony count of special circumstances murder ... More >>
As any Facebook member knows, friend requests from long-lost acquaintances roll in all the time, but the one an Orange County woman in her 30s received in January 2011 really stood out.It was from a man who is alleged to have regularly flown across the country to rape her beginning when she was 12 y ... More >>
And other recent revelations from the world of pedophile-priest protectors in the Diocese of Orange
We at the Weekly had enough respect for former GOP chairman Tom Fuentes to not invade his funeral yesterday and cause a scene--but we're beholden to the truth, so damn straight we're going to blast his funeral for the parade of pedophile apologists and protectors that it was.The main attraction, of ... More >>
An Anaheim man is to be arraigned this morning on charges of sexually assaulting two boys, ages 9 to 11, and possessing graphic child pornography featuring young boys. Held on $1 million bail, Oscar Manuel Vaquera, 37, faces up to 45 years in state prison if he is convicted.
As expected, registered sex offender Nicholas James Needham was sentenced today to six years in state prison for touching a 5-year-old boy's penis in an Orange mall restroom.The Laguna Beach 28-year-old's sentence will be served concurrent with a nine-year term he received in federal court chil ... More >>
Michael Delgado, who could have won Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week honors from the Weekly had the Fullerton 300-pounder not been smoked by first-ballot Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week Hall of Famer Marten Joseph Brandel, had his rape case tossed.On Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Stev ... More >>
Remember Robert Vincent Peace, the local youth soccer coach who pleaded not guilty in January to possessing hordes of child pornography? You know, the one who was also looking at a sentencing enhancement allegation for substantial sexual conduct with a 13-year-old girl.He was charged additionally ... More >>
International serial rapist Ali Achekzai, who was convicted of six felony counts last month after Orange County authorities had the 34-year-old extradited from Austria, was sentenced today to 61 years to life in state prison. Before the former Ladera Ranch resident learned his fate, one of three ... More >>
It was easy to lose amid all the serial killer coverage, but late last week serial rapist James Ernest Bledsoe, 30, of Huntington Beach, was sentenced to 129 years to life in state prison for sexually assaulting four women in his apartment and surreptitiously videotaping the rapes without the v ... More >>
Gary Samuel Cochran, a registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, was sentenced Monday to 26 years in federal prison. The 53-year-old had agreed in September to a plea deal after federal ... More >>
Ali Achekzai's New Year's resolution may involve ways to self improve over the next 80 years.That's how much prison time the so-called "international serial rapist" faces at his Jan. 27 sentencing in Santa Ana, following the 33-year-old's conviction Thursday of six felony counts including forcibl ... More >>
Donohue: Lace-curtain IrishThe Catholic League always struck me as one of those antiquated organizations--like the Iowa clubs of Southern California that held those cool picnics in Long Beach decades ago, or the Grand Army of the Republic--that might've had a place and cause at some point in o ... More >>
Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should the Scouts share the blame?
After East Los Angeles-born Martha M. Escutia served in both houses of the California Legislature from 1992 through 2006, she helped found the private law practice The Senators (Ret.) Firm in Newport Beach, where she specializes in representing abuse victims and their families.In the wake of th ... More >>
A Santa Ana man accused of forcibly raping three prostitutes is scheduled to go on trial this morning--with a possible life sentence handing over his head.Oscar David Duenas, 29, is charged with three felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible oral copulation, and one felony ... More >>
UPDATE, OCT. 28, 12:03 P.M.: The publisher of an Irvine-based Persian magazine threatened to blackmail the family of Saeid Boustanabadi Maralan, the Laguna Beach rug store by manager and registered sex offender facing up to 60 years to life in state prison for allegedly sexually assaulting and/or ... More >>
UPDATE, SEPT. 16, 3:08 P.M.: As expected, prosecutors have filed new charges against registered sex offender Saeid Boustanabadi Maralan based on the allegations of four more women. In addition to the accusations by four other women, the Laguna Niguel 53-year-old allegedly: grabbed the breasts of ... More >>
Gary Samuel Cochran, a 53-year-old registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, agreed Thursday to plea guilty to making kiddie porn, federal prosecutors say.How kiddie? A search of Cochr ... More >>
Huskey's Sin City booking photoWith a name like Huskey, he has to have spent time in Alaska.And with a name like Kenneth Anthony Huskey, he has to be a dick.He was convicted in 2003 of sexually abusing a minor in his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada. That led to sex offender registration in Alaska a ... More >>
Jaime Zamora Ramirez booking photo [UPDATE, JULY 21, 3:50 P.M.] Yesterday, a jury of his peers found Jaime Zamora Ramirez guilty of raping two men, including a teenage female employee of his dry cleaning business. According to this morning's press release issued by the Orange County District A ... More >>
UPDATE, JUNE 24, 12:23 P.M.: Huntington Beach resident David Brian White is already facing local charges of suspected child-pornography possession.Now the feds are piling on.Court documents filed June 15 show the federal grand jury indicted White on one count of distribution of child pornography ... More >>
On Friday afternoon, Phat Huy To was read his 8-year prison sentence for forcibly raping and sodomizing a 23-year-old woman in Garden Grove in July 2010. To had plead guilty and was charged with one felony count each for forcible rape, sodomy by force, forcible oral copulation, and kidnapping, ac ... More >>
UPDATE, JUNE 6, 12:40 P.M.: A Placentia-Linda Hospital anesthesiologist accused of sexually abusing two unconscious females admitted for surgical procedures has had his medical license suspended, according to the California Medical Board.Yashwant Balgiri Giri pleaded not guilty to the charges aga ... More >>
UPDATE, MAY 3, 5:24 P.M.: Well, that was quick.Ninth-strike sex offender Vaughn Robert Biby pleaded guilty before opening statements began today to having hundreds of thousands of pornographic pictures and videos of children, as well as books and Internet print-outs on torture, rape and murder ... More >>
A 22-year-old Anaheim man was charged today with raping and sexually assaulting a woman with severe mental and physical disabilities in a men's restroom at Fullerton College.Raul Barrientos could get up to 150 years in state prison if convicted of the laundry list of charges the Orange County Dis ... More >>
UPDATE, APRIL 9, 10:16 A.M.: 47-year-old Joe David Nelms pleaded not guilty Friday to eight felony counts related to the sexual assault of a then-14-year-old girl he met while serving as a youth pastor in San Clemente in 1993.Nelms, who was extradited to Orange County from Texas, returned to Oran ... More >>
UPDATE, APRIL 7, 6 P.M.: A jury today convicted Joseph Raymond Garcia of forcibly sodomizing three women, two of whom he met online through MillionaireMatch.com. The 51-year-old Irvine resident was also found guilty of raping two of the women.He faces up to 120 years in state prison at his May ... More >>
UPDATE, APRIL 4, 3:24 P.M.: U.S. Customs & Border Protection officer Miguel Lerma Jr. has been charged with one felony count each of forcible rape, sodomy by force and forcible oral copulation for allegedly attacking a woman in Garden Grove, plus one felony count of rape by use of drugs f ... More >>
UPDATE, FEB. 2, 4:13 P.M.: A jury in Santa Ana today found Sekayi Rudo White guilty of raping five women and trying to rape a sixth.The Lake Forest 33-year-old could get up to 119 years in state prison for the laundry list of felony charges and sentencing enhancements jurors hung on him.Sentencin ... More >>
Update, Jan. 11, 10:51 a.m.: Former Orangewood Children's Home group counselor Abner Z. Avila was sentenced Monday to three years of probation after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl under his care at the Orange facility.The 27-year-old Lake Elsinore resident was also orde ... More >>
County prosecutors and Orange County Sheriff's Department investigators have tied Omar Alirio Guzman to three molestations of little girls, but there are fears the 43-year-old Mission Viejo housecleaner preyed on other young victims as well.He is scheduled to be arraigned this morning at the Cent ... More >>
When Santa Ana Police earlier this month arrested 66-year-old Pinkey Badgett on suspicion of possessing computer files and "boxes and boxes" of videos and photographs depicting child pornography, a department spokesman reached out to the public in hopes of locating possible molestation victims.Th ... More >>
Alejandro Lorenzo Contreras, the 24-year-old Stanton resident who pleaded guilty last month to possessing child pornography and annoying a 12-year-old girl at the Stanton Public Library, was sentenced today to a year in jail and three years of probation. He must also register as a sex offender. ... More >>
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