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Raphael Jakim was convicted this afternoon of one count of attending an arranged meeting with a minor with the intent to commit a sexual offense. The Simi Valley married father traveled to Redondo Beach to meet a 13-year-old girl that was really Torrance Detective Dennis Brady.

Brady, the father of his own teenage daughter, was sure to punctuate his online chat with some well-placed kid verbage, including the word "like" and talk about the mall. It was hard imagining the burly, mustachioed police officer participating in a girlie talk. But, it apparently worked, for he caught the predator.

Jakim, who was out on bail, was taken into custody without bail pending his sentencing hearing Friday.

In beginning her closing argument Monday in Raphael Jakim's trial for allegedly meeting a minor for sex, Deputy District Attorney Delanee Hicks told the jury that the Internet offers many valuable opportunities - like making restaurant reservations, buying airline tickets and social networking. But it also gives pedophiles many ways to contact and groom their vulnerable victims anonymously and under the radar, she said, making online predators very hard to catch.

Hicks compared the "old" ways pedophiles operated versus the "new." The old way involved lines like, "Hey little girl, would you like some candy?" or "Hey little boy, I lost my dog. Can you help me find my dog?"

But because the new way makes it easy for child predators to find kids and even establish relationships with them with a few key strokes, the Internet needs a new way to fight crime.

Jakim's case is the result of a sting that was conducted by Torrance Detective Dennis Brady, who is a member of the Interent Crimes Against Children task force. If you've ever watched Dateline NBC's - To Catch A Predator, you have a pretty good idea how that works. To find out more about how to keep kids safe online, check out these useful sites:

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's NetSmartz411

The Los Angeles District Attorney's Protecting Our Kids page

The jury in Jakim's trial resumes deliberations this afternoon.

 

Dwight Mitchell Waters, 39, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two child molestation counts for having sex with a 13-year-old student in May 2008. He got six years and will have to register as a sex offender. Read all about it here.

Previously: San Pedro boxer accused of raping teen had fight of his life inside his head

David Sosa, a former worker at the El Segundo aerospace giant, appeared in a San Bernardino courtroom today with a new lawyer. He was convicted a little more than a month ago for abusing two female family members and faces up to 24 years in prison.

Sosa will return June 5 for a status conference and then is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 11, prosecutors said today.

 

A 72-year-old doctor from Palos Verdes Estates was ordered on Thursday to spend 120 days in jail for sexually assaulting a female patient in his East Los Angeles office.

Roger Giani, who also uses the name Iraj Sadghiani, will also have to register as a sex offender, attend 52 weeks of sexual compulsive anonymous meetings and is forbidden from practicing medicine in California, according to Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the City Attorney's Office.

Giani was convicted by a jury of sexual battery and simple battery in Los Angeles Superior Court.

On Nov. 11, 2007, Giani assaulted the victim when they were alone in a room together at his Angelus Medical Clinic.

The then 22-year-old victim said Giani groped her breasts and rubbed his groin against her body for sexual gratification.

 The jury also heard evidence that the defendant had inappropriately touched the victim's sister in the past.

El Camino College police are investigating a student's report that she was sexually assaulted by four men in a restroom in the Natural Sciences Building.

The student said the attack occurred at 3 p.m. on March 5. She did not report it until Friday, police said.

Investigators wanted to question the student Tuesday, but she missed her appointment.

Campus officials issued an alert to students and faculty, as required by law, over the weekend.

The student last week provided detailed descriptions of her assailants.

One was black, about 20 years old, about 6 feet 3 inches tall, with a medium muscular build, and nearly full beard with a thin mustache.

He wore a black baseball style hat with an orange visor, a black T-shirt with what appeared to be a white T-shirt underneath and shorts of an unknown color. He had a large scar about 10 inches long on his right lower leg, and had two earrings in his left ear.

One was yellow metal in the shape of a five-pointed star, and the other was square with a yellow stone setting.

The second man was black, about 20 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall with a skinny build and dark skin color. He wore a tight-fitting "dew rag" skull cap, a gray T-shirt and blue jeans.
The third man was black, about 20 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a medium muscular build and medium skin color. He had a short fade-style hair cut, and wore a brown or tan shirt with long sleeves.

The fourth man was black, about 20 years old, with a light skin color. He wore a white long-sleeve shirt under a white short sleeve T-shirt. He had what appeared to be a mole on left upper cheek.

Anyone with information is asked to call the El Camino Police Department at 310-660-3100.

The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports on a Hermosa Beach man who pleaded guilty to charges for trying to meet a child for sex after chatting online.

An appellate court issued a conditional reversal Wednesday for four sexual assault convictions against a man who raped a 15-year-old girl at the South Coast Botanic Garden on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Antoine Reed, 45, lost his appeal on several other grounds, but convinced the 2nd District Court of Appeal that the trial judge should have allowed a hearing on whether he could call the victim's mother to the witness stand.

Reed said he wanted her to testify about why she didn't want a detective to question her daughter. Reed argued that it went toward the possibility that the mother believed detectives were manipulating the teen, who gave several versions of the incident.

The case will return to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing regarding the issue. Depending on the outcome, Reed could get a new trial.

Reed was convicted by a Torrance Superior Court jury in December 2007 of rape, oral copulation of a minor and two counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child.

He picked the girl up on Aug. 2, 2006, as she waited at a South Los Angeles bus stop before school. With promises of making her a model, he took her to the garden to photograph her.

After he took pictures, he pulled off her clothes and assaulted her.

He was sentenced to 110 years to life.

You can see the appellate opinion here.

Sorry, folks, for the delay on this and a few other stories! Been off for a few days and I'm playing catch-up.

On Friday, Francis Miguel Cuellar was sentenced to 161 years to life for molesting a Westchester boy, who was a family friend, and three others years ago in Pico Rivera.

Look for the full report later in the Daily Breeze and at www.dailybreeze.com, which will include some details of some of the things said before he was sentenced. (Hint: Cuellar said he didn't do it.)

Previous entries on the case are here.