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Fontana, California Man Sentenced to 60 Years in Sexual Assault Case
July 31, 2008
The case goes back to 2005 when Rosales assaulted two women in two separate sexual assault incidents. The incidents happened in September of that year. In the first sexual assault, Rosales, who seems to have had a history of sexual offenses since the age of 13, forced a woman into the back room of a hair salon and assaulted her. The assault continued until the woman paid him $100. The second sexual assault incident occurred the very next day. This time, Rosales used a gun to terrify his victim into submission.
As the court found out during his trial, Rosales had a long history of sexual crimes going back to when he was 13 years old. In 1998, he had had committed a series of sexual assaults in Riverside where he confessed to hiding in bathroom stalls, spying on women and following their movements. He spent several years in juvenile facilities after being convicted in those assaults.
In the recent sexual assault incidents, Rosales will be eligible for parole only in 2056, when he will be 72 years old. Upon his release from jail, he will be required to register himself as a sex offender.
60 years in prison is a fitting term for a man convicted of such heinous crimes. Rosales will have enough time to ponder his behavior, and come to terms with his actions. But what about his victims who he has scarred by his behavior? When do they come to terms with any of this? One of them was held at gunpoint as she was assaulted. You don’t get through memories like that with a few hours of therapy and some Prozac.
These two victims have suffered severe emotional trauma that may need years of professional help and counseling. Their future relationships may forever be tinged by these incidents. While Rosales will continue to have his daily needs met with taxpayer money, his sexual assault victims are confined to years of struggle.
The Reeves Law Group is a law firm with offices throughout California dedicated exclusively to the representation of personal injury victims, including victims of sexual assault. Please visit our website at trlglaw.com. If you desire a free consultation on a personal injury matter, please call us at (800) 644-8000 or email us.
Doctor Arrested for Los Angeles Sexual Assault
July 22, 2008
The South LA doctor has been charged on multiple counts of sexual assault and is currently in jail. The number of sexual assault charges against Brown are numerous, and include allegations of molestation and sexual abuse of a teenager, among others. He faces up to 19 felony counts, and allegedly molested over 8 patients in a two-year period. Brown is currently being held on a $4 million bail. The amount is unusually high, and was specially requested by prosecutors who feared the doctor would use his Bermuda connections to make a sprint from the county.
The sexual assault cases only came to light after many women complained to police authorities that Brown had sexually molested them during the course of medical examinations. The string of charges includes sexual battery and sexual battery by fraud, and performing lewd acts on a 15-year-old. His sexual assaults are reported to have occurred during a two-year period between the 6th of November 2006 and the 31st of May 2008.
This isn’t the first time the good doctor has been trapped in a web of sexual wrongdoing. At the time of his arrest in fact, he was out on bail from an arrest in another sexual assault case. He had been booked on suspicion of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in July of last year, as well as an undercover police officer who posed as a patient. These sexual abuse cases apparently happened at his office.
Sexual assault is not the only charge Brown needs to be worrying about. While the LAPD investigators have been looking into the cases of sexual assault reported against him, medical fraud investigators were involved in a similar investigation of their own against Dr. Brown. It turns out that not only was he an alleged molester, but he was also involved in a health care fraud scheme. According to the Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse unit, the charges of health care fraud against Brown came to light only when the investigators were looking into clinics run by Russians and Armenians. Physicians at these clinics, who have now been arrested on charges of fraud, reportedly told the investigators that they were introduced to the scheme by Dr. Brown himself. The scam seemed to have been a sweet one, with Brown getting a hefty percentage of their earnings as payment for his part in setting them up with a nicely profitable scam business. Brown also faces charges of over-prescribing painkiller medications.
This is obviously a man who cares zilch for the law. There are too many instances of all kinds of illegal and unethical acts. The patients who suffer traumatic sexual abuse at his hands in particular, are the ones who will need the most amount of help getting though their ordeal. The eight patients who have bravely come forward to report him, should now also go another step further, and claim compensation from this man.
The Reeves Law Group is a law firm with offices throughout California dedicated exclusively to the representation of personal injury victims, including victims of sexual assault. Please visit our website at trlglaw.com. If you desire a free consultation on a personal injury matter, please call us at (800) 644-8000 or email us.
Los Angeles Comedian Arrested for Murrieta Sexual Battery
July 17, 2008
This is one Andy Dick act that no one is going to be laughing at. The comedian, who is as well known for his comedy routines as for his frequent brush-ins with the law, has been arrested on charges of sexual battery in the town of Murrieta, California. He allegedly groped a teenage girl outside a restaurant, after which her friends called the police.
The comedian is no stranger to controversy. His off-screen and off-stage life has actually been a series of scandals and skirmishes with the law. The man seems to derive some sort of perverse pleasure in defying the law, and offending sensibilities. Last year, he was cited in Ohio for urinating in public, and was thrown off the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live because of his offensive behavior towards Ivanka Trump who also happened to be a guest on the show. In 1999, Dick was charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine, after a car accident in which he drove his car into a telephone pole.
On Tuesday, the comedian had a run-in with cops when he was involved in a minor altercation at a sports café in Murrieta at about 9 pm. The cops noticed that he was intoxicated, and told him to either leave or he would be arrested on charges of public intoxication. Soon after, Dick arrived at the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Murrieta with his entourage and proceeded to drink heavily.
The young girl who was at the restaurant with her friends approached him, after she recognized who he was, but backed off when she realized that he was intoxicated. As Dick was leaving the restaurant, he spotted the girl with her friends, and went up to her. According to the complaint that the girl filed, he groped her, and even exposed her.
When the police arrived, they forced him and his friends to line up so the girl could identify him. After the girl made identification, he was charged with sexual battery. He was also found to have marijuana and XANAX in his pocket for which he had no prescription. He has also been charged with possession of an illegal substance. There are also possibilities that he will be charged for public intoxication too.
Unfortunately, this isn’t a scene from one of his raucous acts, and it would be foolish to neglect this man’s constant flouting of the law, just because he is a famous face. We need to stop laughing at his jokes, and the girl needs to haul him to court, so he can be exposed as the diseased mind that he is. We encourage such predators when we continue to ignore their sordid behavior and raise them on a pedestal. We seriously hope the girls parents are not intimidated by his celebrity status, and are considering all possible legal means at their disposal.
Their daughter’s humiliation in public by this arrogant man has to be compensated. There’s no doubt that she is scarred by what happened. The family must not let this go unpunished.
The Reeves Law Group is a law firm with offices throughout California dedicated exclusively to the representation of personal injury victims, including victims of sexual battery. Please visit our website at trlglaw.com. If you desire a free consultation on a personal injury matter, please call us at (800) 644-8000 or email us.
Anaheim Doctor Convicted of Sexual Assault of a Minor
July 14, 2008
For Anthony Lee, it's three years in the slammer, and the loss of his much-abused medical license. For his unfortunate victim, however, it's a lifetime of scarring and endless therapy. The 64-year-old gynecologist from Anaheim, California has been convicted of sexual abuse of a teenage girl. Lee pleaded guilty to felony charges of sexual battery by fraud, as well as residential burglary by entering a home with the intention of committing sexual assault on a minor victim.
The doctor, the district attorney's public affairs counsel said, was a friend of the victim's family, and was a visitor to their home. On one such instance, Lee pretended to have arrived for a medical consultation, and offered to teach the unidentified 16-year-old girl about contraceptives. He then followed the girl upstairs to her bedroom, where he proceeded to sexually abuse her. Lee was arrested when the girl told her mother. She also said that the doctor had abused her on a prior occasion, when she was 10 or 11 years old. With her trusting parents having seen no need for caution, the girl had been also abused on one other occasion when Lee, ever the benevolent father figure, was teaching her to drive.
After this sexual abuse case broke into the news, two other women came forward to claim that the gynecologist had made sexual advances on them in his La Palma Avenue office during medical exams. Those assaults cannot be prosecuted because the statute of limitations on them has expired.
One wonders how many more silent victims this pervert-in-doctor's-clothing has managed to leave behind in his path. For a trusted doctor to misuse the sort of faith that his patients bestow on him is disgusting and completely shameful. All he has to pay for his despicable behavior is three paid-for-by-the-tax-payers years in the state prison, and the loss of his license. Lee will also be registered as a sex offender, which may or may not make much difference to him if he decides to move away from town, taking his sickening behavior with him. In other words, what's to say that there won't be a repeat of this case in another city halfway across the country, when he's finally out of jail in three years time?
Punishments for sexual assault on minors in this country are pitifully low. Convictions like Lee's come with great difficulty, if at all, and sentences are ridiculously light. Meanwhile, the young teenager undoubtedly will carry the burden of this experience with her for the rest of her life. For her, there will be no escaping the sense of revulsion and complete betrayal by a reputed doctor trusted by her and her family. How can three years compensate for this?
As a young victim of sexual assault, this young woman has every right to claim compensation for the limitless mental and emotional havoc wreaked on her and her family through Lee's shameful behavior. A few months behind bars is a ridiculous punishment for a crime this grave. The victim's family should, definitely consider filing a civil lawsuit against Lee for the suffering he has caused them.
The Reeves Law Group is a law firm with offices throughout California dedicated exclusively to the representation of personal injury victims, including victims of sexual abuse. Please visit our website at trlglaw.com. If you desire a free consultation on a personal injury matter, please call us at (800) 644-8000 or email us.
