A 31-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting two girls in Anaheim has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the jail classification system leaves him open to beatings by fellow inmates.<\/p>\n
Daniel Velazquez Jr. is charged with two counts of lewd acts on a child ages 14 or 15 as well as single counts each of forcible oral copulation on a minor 14 or older and sodomy by force of a victim 14 or older, all felonies. He also faces a misdemeanor count of resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
Velazquez is accused of attacking the victims Feb. 11 of last year. He pled not guilty in September.<\/p>\n
Velazquez filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court alleging Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputies failed to protect him while he has been in custody.<\/p>\n
Velazquez was arrested in June and was \u201copenly classified \u2026 as a sex offender, to which other inmates took notice,\u201d according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
The inmate\u2019s attorney, Dick Herman, said that classification puts his client at risk because other inmates often attack accused sex offenders.<\/p>\n
Velazquez has been attacked four times since his arrest, Herman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has daily confrontations, fights constantly,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they give a prisoner that kind of ID, it invites an attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s department has a faulty classification system, Herman said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a system that protects him.\u201d .<\/p>\n
Inmates facing child sex crime charges \u201cshould be separated, they should be isolated,\u201d Herman said.<\/p>\n
Herman compared it to the Oct. 5, 2006 fatal beating of 41-year-old John Chamberlain, who was in custody on misdemeanor possession of child pornography charges.<\/p>\n
Velazquez has asked for a temporary restraining order challenging the classification system, but that request has not yet been accepted or rejected, Herman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting two girls in Anaheim has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,103509,22976,14367,2637,17811,11936],"class_list":["post-227575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-classification","tag-inmate","tag-jail","tag-sheriff","tag-sues","tag-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}