A girl accused her relative of abuse. Then LAPD linked him to a rape unsolved for decades
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A man arrested last year for allegedly sexually assaulting a young relative has now been linked to the rape of another teenager in 1997 in Koreatown, according to recent court filings in the long-unsolved case.The Koreatown investigation languished for nearly three decades until a DNA hit led to Wilfredo Romeo Perez, an LAPD sex crimes detective wrote in a sworn affidavit seeking Perez’s arrest.Det.Ernesto Escoto wrote in the April 7 affidavit that Perez became a suspect after a young woman in his family reported to authorities that he had been sexually abusive for years.Perez’s relative first reported the alleged assaults last April, telling investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that the abuse began when she was 11 and occurred multiple times, according to the affidavit.Police said that Perez was out on bond after being charged with continuous sexual abuse of a minor and other related crimes.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is set to return to court next month, court records show.A message left for one of Perez’s attorneys was not immediately returned on Wednesday morning.
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