UPDATE: Jiffy Lube worker rapes woman in Torrance business while her children wait in the car
A worker at a Jiffy Lube in Torrance was charged Monday with raping a female customer in his locked office while her children and a friend waited in the car.
Johnny Jeffrey Maciel, 22, of Lynwood faces charges that could send him to prison for up to 16 years, prosecutors said.
The crime occurred about 6:30 p.m. Thursday when the 20-year-old woman took her car to the oil change business at 3209 190th St. to be inspected.
As her two children, an adult friend and the friend's child waited, the woman went to speak with Maciel, who asked her to accompany him into the office.
Prosecutors said he locked the door and sexually assaulted her.
The woman immediately called police. Maciel stayed at the business. Officers quickly arrested him.
The victim did not know Maciel, Anderson said.
"She was there for vehicle maintenance and was assaulted during that time," Torrance police Sgt. Bernard Anderson said.
Maciel pleaded not guilty Monday at the Torrance courthouse to one count of forcible rape.
Judge Thomas Sokolov ordered Maciel held in county jailon $175,000 bail and to return to court on March 16.
Prosecutors said Maciel has a prior strike, but did not elaborate on his previous conviction.
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Lock this loser up for life, he has no business being in society. Bail was low for this low life, the judges need to set the bail higher! I like it back in the 1930's and 40's,people would get a rope and hang this loser from the highest tree!!!
Big Mo
East Side Torrance
What a jerk. I can't believe this guy went that far. Thats exactly why our prisons are so full. There aren't any REAL consequences for criminals. They just go to jail. Let's give them the death penalty and actually go through with it - and quick. Don't let them tie up the appeals court if the cases are cut and dry. Do to them what they did to others - an eye for an eye.
FUCK ALL BITCHES AND HOLES WHO SAID THAT!!!!!!! WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPPLE SAYING SHIT ABOUT THAT PERSON NAMED JOHNNY HE IS A HUMAN BEING AND NO ONE COULD DUGE HIM EXEPT GOD!!! PERSONS WHO ARE ACUSING HIM FUCK THEM AND ALL OF YALL WHO ARE SAYING SHIT TOO!!! FUCKEN IDIOTZ ALL YALL WHO ACUSES HIM TALK CUZ YALL HAVE A FUCKEN MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope this idiot is given the gas chamber or castration. Hang the guy, and Ms. I can cuss and not spell, you show that you are a Jr. High drop out and probably as smart as the idiot in the article. You can join him
Look you ignorant chola, you obviusly come from
the ghetto such as your ghetto relative or boyfriend! Learn how to spell and what proper grammar is before you decide to back this criminal up!!!!
And he is a human being so what! That doesnt mean he should go unpunished for the crime he committed or in his case crimes (plural) = meaning multiple!
Dont you worry the day that lowlife decides to grace society with his death GOD will DEFINITELY judge him!
The fruits of immigration abound,Lillyanna Garcia calls him a human being, no one can judge him but God, like most Mexicans, she does not know we are a nation with laws,he will be juded in a court of law, I hope they hang him!if it was you who got raped, as your children waited,you might feel differently,you
people will eventually find yourselves the primary targets of population control!
Read between the lines people...the chick was 20 years old and had "children" (more than one) I doubt shes all that innocent. There's two sides to this story..Im just saying
Some idiot up there could this sexual PREDATOR a jerk. This is NOT a jerk. That thing is NOT a jerk. He is a sociopathic predator who has hurt the fabric of society by doing this. A jerk is an asshole, someone who dismisses your complaint and/ or ignores you. This guy transcends that and the light language you used to describe him makes me query you!