Los Angeles County prosecutors charged a 40-year-old man with sexually assaulting two ladies in his van in a secluded a part of the Angeles Nationwide Forest earlier this week.
Eduardo Sarabia was charged Wednesday with one depend of forcible rape and one depend of forcible oral copulation, in response to court docket information. Sarabia is accused of raping a girl after driving her to a hid space of the forest on Sunday after which sexually assaulting a second girl in the identical distant space on Monday, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s workplace introduced in a information launch. The incidents passed off alongside Freeway 39 between the hours of 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. authorities mentioned.
“The horrific and violent sexual assault that these two survivors endured by the alleged suspect is deeply troubling and incomprehensible. Our ideas are with the victims throughout this tremendously troublesome time,” Gascón mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division is asking for the general public’s assist to seek out any further victims. Based mostly on the circumstances surrounding the case, investigators imagine there could possibly be extra unidentified victims. The Sheriff’s Division launched photographs of Sarabia and his windowless white-paneled van.
“I need to emphasize that that is an ongoing investigation, and there could also be further victims who’ve but to come back ahead. I urge anybody who has been affected by comparable incidents to contact regulation enforcement and search accessible sources,” Gascón mentioned.
Sarabia was arraigned in a Pomona courtroom Wednesday and is due again in court docket June 27. Anybody with details about this case can contact the Sheriff’s Division, Particular Victims Bureau at 877-710-5273 or by e mail at specialvictimsbureau@lasd.org.
