The person accused of raping and beating two girls in brutal assaults within the Venice Canals in April now faces a homicide cost after one of many victims died from her accidents, officers mentioned.
“Our hearts and deepest sympathies exit to the sufferer’s household and mates throughout this unimaginably tragic time,” Los Angeles Dist. Atty. George Gascón mentioned in a information launch saying the homicide cost Tuesday. “We’re dedicated to looking for justice for each victims of those heinous crimes.”
Anthony Francisco Jones had already been charged with two counts forcible rape, one depend of sexual penetration by use of pressure, one depend of mayhem, one depend of torture, and one depend of sodomy by use of pressure in reference to the April 6 assaults.
Sarah Alden, a 53-year-old mom of two, was left in a coma, and a second lady was hospitalized with important accidents, together with a number of fractures to her jaw.
Alden was declared brain-dead Might 20 and faraway from life help 4 days later, after her organs had been donated, in line with a GoFundMe web page arrange for her memorial.
“The extra homicide cost carries a sentence of life in jail with out the potential of parole, along with the life sentences for the crimes beforehand alleged,” Gascón mentioned within the launch.
The survivor described her ordeal to The Occasions from her hospital mattress within the instant aftermath of the assault. She had gone for a stroll after work to succeed in her day by day 10,000-steps objective when she was struck to the bottom and brutalized, leaving her with a minimum of eight fractures to her jaw, a number of enamel knocked in, a big minimize to the again of the top and extreme bruising masking her face and neck, in line with a GoFundMe web page set as much as assist cowl her medical bills.
A single mom and longtime Venice resident recognized for her elaborate sand sculptures of mermaids, she additionally suffered seizures following two mind bleeds from the assault.
“Wasn’t all collectively myself until now!” the survivor wrote in an replace on Might 20. “Thanks for all of the love you could have given me.”
The Occasions typically doesn’t establish victims of sexual assault.
Jones is about to seem in court docket on June 11.
