Palm Springs Man Convicted of Assaulting Girls Across Three Counties
Jesse James Garcia Airada, 29, was found guilty on multiple counts involving sexual assault of minors, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office.
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Palm Springs Man Pleads to Charges of Assaulting Girls Across Three Counties
A Palm Springs man has pleaded to charges that he sexually assaulted multiple girls across Riverside, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. Jesse James Garcia Airada, 29, pleaded to two counts of rape, three counts of contacting a minor for the purpose of perpetrating a felony, and one count each of oral copulation of a minor, providing controlled substances to a child, using a minor to produce child porn and penetration with a foreign object, as reported by kesq.com.
The government alleges that Airada enticed the victims with illegal drugs and used them to make child pornography, according to kesq.com. The case was investigated by the sheriff's department. The charges include a sentence-enhancing allegation of raping a minor, which could add to his prison time, as reported by kesq.com.
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