Charges Filed Against Clown In Rape Of SoCal Girl
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Prosecutors in California have filed four felony counts against a professional clown charged with raping a 12-year-old girl nine years ago.
Jose Guadalupe Jimenez is charged with two counts of lewd acts upon a child, a count of aggravated sexual assault of a child and a count of forcible lewd act on a child. The 41-year-old Anaheim man, who is expected to be arraigned Monday, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
Orange County prosecutors say Jimenez was dressed as a clown when he grabbed a girl at a fast-food stand just before midnight in January 2002, drove to a school parking lot and raped the girl.
Investigators say a DNA sample after his child abuse arrest in an Anaheim case last year linked him to the rape.
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