A 43-year-old man was convicted Tuesday, Sept. 28 of sexually assaulting three girls, including one he impregnated in San Juan Capistrano.<\/p>\n
One of Raul Cruz-Camacho\u2019s victims testified how she began to experience pregnancy-related symptoms in eighth grade that led her to a hospital in San Juan Capistrano in November 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy stomach just kept hurting,\u201d she testified. \u201cI was throwing up\u2026 I wasn\u2019t feeling good.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also experienced headaches that lasted several days. After about a week or two, the defendant suggested the girl\u2019s mother should take her to a hospital, she said.<\/p>\n
She said she couldn\u2019t run in physical education at school anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just holding my stomach so the pain would go away,\u201d she testified.<\/p>\n
She lost about a month of school, she said. She vomited several times a day and had trouble keeping any meals down.<\/p>\n
When physicians determined she was pregnant she said the defendant, who she lived with, assaulted her, she testified. Her mother was \u201cangry\u201d and \u201ccrying\u201d when she heard the news, she said.<\/p>\n
The victim said she had the pregnancy terminated shortly afterward.<\/p>\n
The victim said he would force her mouth open to orally copulate him, she testified.<\/p>\n
The victim said she was \u201ctoo afraid\u201d to tell anyone. She also said he would take her along to the store and sexually assault her in a car. She began to realize how wrong the assaults were in seventh grade when she had sex education, she said.<\/p>\n
The first time he assaulted her he \u201cdragged me\u201d to his bed and when he was done he directed her to go watch television with her siblings, she said.<\/p>\n
The victim tearfully testified how she also saw the defendant molest two other girls in her family.<\/p>\n
Cruz-Camacho was convicted of five counts of rape, two counts of forcible lewd act on a child, a count of forcible oral copulation on a child younger than 14, and a count of sexual penetration by force of a child younger than 14, all felonies.<\/p>\n
Cruz-Camacho was scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 43-year-old man was convicted Tuesday, Sept. 28 of sexually assaulting three girls, including one he impregnated in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,138,100,611,6736,2531,136],"class_list":["post-480560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-san-juan-capistrano","tag-sexual-assault","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480560","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=480560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}