{"id":405867,"date":"2026-07-21T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405867\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:03:01","slug":"fresno-serial-rapist-learns-his-fate-for-heinous-attacks-on-five-women-and-two-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405867\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno serial rapist learns his fate for heinous attacks on five women and two kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/17\/us-news\/serial-rapist-gets-effective-life-sentence-after-monstrous-torment-of-elderly-nyc-woman-who-says-survival-is-a-miracle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serial rapist<\/a> in Fresno County\u00a0has been sentenced to 46 years for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/14\/us-news\/nj-teacher-jesse-heubel-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-student-at-school\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexually assaulting<\/a> five women and two minors \u2013\u2013\u00a0including his own daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Cesar Flores, 57, will now be registered as a sex offender for life in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Judge James Kelly in Fresno County Superior Court announced his sentence Monday. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnosheriff.org\/media-relations\/suspect-arrested-for-series-of-rapes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">arrested a year ago<\/a> after a cold case investigation brought back five rape cases into focus that happened between 2016 and 2021. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79980469;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40042123\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2025-mugshot-flores-pleaded-guilty-135039142.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Cesar Flores, 55, a bald man with dark eyes and light stubble, wearing a white shirt.\" class=\"wp-image-40042123\"  \/>A serial rapist in Fresno County\u00a0has been sentenced to 46 years for sexually assaulting five women and two minors \u2013\u2013\u00a0including his own daughters. Fresno Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.75042735;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40042119\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cesar-flores-55-fresno-pleaded-135039415.jpg\" alt=\"A judge in a black robe holds up a document while seated at a bench with two computer monitors.\" class=\"wp-image-40042119\"  \/>Judge James Kelly in Fresno County Superior Court announced his sentence Monday.  ABC30<\/p>\n<p>Flores was booked after investigators used <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/17\/us-news\/details-of-brittany-clarks-alligator-attack-death-in-dna-test-results-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DNA collected<\/a> from a distant female relative in another state that identified him as a likely suspect in these cases. According to the Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Flores didn\u2019t know any of his female victims prior to committing the sex crimes and approached them in public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetectives also learned that two of Flores\u2019 victims were his daughters, who were minors at the time of the assaults,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-serial-rapist-admits-crimes-court-faces-life-prison\/19326651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Fresno Bee reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He was facing 22 counts of felony charges at the time of his arrest, but Flores ended up pleading guilty to only four felonies last month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-serial-rapist-admits-crimes-court-faces-life-prison\/19326651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC News reported<\/a>. He pleaded guilty to several counts of rape by force and forcible lewd acts upon a child.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the California Morning Report newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalifornia&#8217;s top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cops said that four of the sickening attacks by the serial predator happened in the city\u2019s west and central hubs, while the fifth incident happened in the county\u2019s rural outskirts.<\/p>\n<p>Flores staked the victims while driving his car and brandished a knife, the Fresno Bee said. According to court records accessed by the news outlet, in one terrifying encounter, a victim narrowly escaped the horror by jumping off his moving vehicle and landing into an irrigation canal.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his arrest in 2025, Flores\u2019 bail was set at $1.7 million and he was facing 264 years of imprisonment. <\/p>\n<p>Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters <\/p>\n<p>California Post News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCaliforniaPost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@CaliforniaPost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thecaliforniapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Vb6a2IV1NCrL6q2AWq0E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WhatsApp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/company\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>California Post Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capostsports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/capostsports\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@capostsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CaliforniaPostSports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/capostsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a><br \/>California Post  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Opinion<\/a> <br \/>California Post Newsletters: <a href=\"https:\/\/email.nypost.com\/#california-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sign up here!<\/a><br \/>California Post App: <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/california-post\/id6751343487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Download here!<\/a><br \/>Home delivery: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.californiapost.com\/defaultCAP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here!<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/california-post\/id6751343487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><br \/><\/a>Page Six Hollywood: <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/hollywood-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sign up here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serial rapist in Fresno County\u00a0has been sentenced to 46 years for sexually assaulting five women and two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,4182,23734,15836,83232,3586],"class_list":["post-405867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-metro","tag-sex-offenders","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-predators","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405867","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=405867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}