{"id":394073,"date":"2026-07-10T23:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394073\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:38:30","slug":"accused-rapist-at-menlo-college-may-have-another-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394073\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused rapist at Menlo College may have another victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0student at Menlo College\u00a0who was charged with the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl <\/a>inside his campus dorm room may have another victim, prosecutors revealed.<\/p>\n

A court hearing for Andres Manuel Aguilar, 19, was postponed this week due to police investigating another potential victim of the student. The hearing was postponed to Aug. 27, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.<\/p>\n

Aguilar had not entered a plea as of Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"MugshotAndres Manuel Aguilar, 19, is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in a Menlo College dorm room. San Mateo County<\/p>\n

According to the original charge, Aguilar allegedly gave the victim his phone number during their initial encounter at a Menlo Park transit stop and subsequently persuaded her to meet him on May 5, according to the district attorney.<\/p>\n

Investigators noted that while the victim allegedly told the suspect she was 17, Aguilar admitted to law enforcement that he knew that she was still underage.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors claimed that he took the girl to a store and bought alcohol. They went back to his dorm room on the Menlo College campus, where the girl allegedly consumed alcohol and vaped cannabis before the assault happened.<\/p>\n

Dorm surveillance footage captured the pair entering Aguilar\u2019s residence room and showed the victim leaving at a later time, according to the DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

The suspect is accused of stripping off the victim\u2019s pants while she repeatedly protested, authorities said. Out of a sudden fear of a potential pregnancy, Aguilar allegedly used\u00a0DoorDash to order emergency Plan B<\/a>\u00a0contraception to the room, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

\"ADorm surveillance footage captured the pair entering Aguilar\u2019s residence room and showed the victim leaving at a later time, according to the DA\u2019s office. Kron4<\/p>\n

Aguilar, of San Jose, is currently being held without bail on multiple felonies, including\u00a0aggravated sexual assault of a child<\/a>, aggravated sexual assault of a minor involving oral copulation, and providing marijuana to a minor under 14.<\/p>\n

He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a child is 13 and under, society treats that much more seriously,\u201d Wagstaffe said in a statement. \u201cThe penalties are much higher. There is never any argument that a child could have consented in any fashion to it, and it really becomes serious when you deal with a 12-year-old child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Menlo College is an exclusive, private business institution known for its tight-knit undergraduate student body of roughly 810 to 880 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take all allegations of criminal conduct and misconduct involving our community with the utmost seriousness,\u201d a Menlo College spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0student at Menlo College\u00a0who was charged with the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl inside his campus dorm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1815,4182,64560,266,7563,3586],"class_list":["post-394073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-college","tag-metro","tag-minors","tag-northern-california","tag-rape","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394073","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=394073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}