Luis Arturo Gonzalez Monroy is charged with three counts of rape, one count of sexual penetration by a foreign object and two counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14, all felonies. One of the accusers testified she was 17 when the defendant allegedly raped her in his van on Dec.
The alleged victim said she was staying with her mother in Buena Park on winter break from high school at the time when she went out to meet some friends. She said her friends would sometimes use her phone and they apparently had been texting with the defendant, who they had met previously.
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But that night was the "first time I had seen him," she testified. Gonzalez went to a convenience store with the teens and bought alcohol for them, she testified. She said she got "tipsy" in his van as they drove around. The alleged victim asked her mother if her male friend, who had just turned 18, could stay with them that night, but her mother said no, so Gonzalez dropped off all of her friends, leaving the teen alone with him, she testified.
On the way to her mother's apartment, he said he had to stop somewhere to relieve himself so he stopped in what appeared to be an industrial neighborhood without anyone around, she testified. Then he came back into the van and climbed on top of her, she testified. I didn't eat all day. Gonzalez later dropped her off a couple of blocks away from her mother's apartment, she testified. Deputy District Attorney Shane McDonough told jurors in his opening statement that the defendant also twice raped a year-old volleyball player visiting Irvine from Japan on Aug.
The alleged victim was at a bank in Irvine trying to order an Uber ride, but she could not get cell service, McDonough said. The defendant offered her a ride, he said. The defendant took her to Newport Beach, where he allegedly raped her on a trail and then took her to Echo Park and Universal Studios before driving back to Orange County and sexually assaulting her again before taking her home, McDonough said.
