Pastor Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Girls At His Riverside Home And At Churches
Jagdish Chand and Carlos Ramirez Valdez exploited trust to assault multiple minor girls over several years; Chand faces up to 118 years, Valdez convicted on 10 felony counts.
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Pastor convicted of sexually assaulting girls in OC, Riverside
SANTA ANA — A Santa Ana pastor was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting three girls he met through churches in Riverside, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. Carlos Ramirez Valdez, 61, was arrested in 2021. He was convicted of seven counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14 and three counts of oral copulation or sexual penetration with a child 10 or younger, all felonies. Jurors also found true a sentencing enhancement for multip…
Pastor Convicted of Molesting 3 Girls in OC, Riverside
A Santa Ana pastor was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting three girls he met through churches in Riverside, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. Carlos Ramirez Valdez, 61, was convicted of seven counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14 and three counts of oral copulation or sexual penetration with a child 10 or younger, all felonies. Jurors also found true a sentencing enhancement for multiple victims. Valdez was pastor of Inte…
Santa Ana pastor convicted of assaulting three little girls at churches in the O.C. and the I.E. - New Santa Ana
Carlos Ramirez Valdez, 61, a Santa Ana pastor, was convicted Monday of s*xually assaulting three girls he met at churches in Riverside, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. Valdez was arrested in 2021. He was eventually convicted of seven felony counts of l*wd or l*scivious acts with a minor younger than 14 and three counts of oral c*pulation or s*xual penetration with a child 10 or younger. He was also hit with a sentencing enhancement for having multip…
Sacramento man convicted of sexually assaulting victim from age 7
A jury convicted a 68-year-old man of multiple sexual assault charges on Sept. 4, 2025, after he repeatedly abused a victim from the age of 7 until she was 13.Jagdish Chand was found guilty of 16 felony counts, including five counts of rape by force, seven counts of oral copulation by force, and two counts each of sexual penetration with a foreign object and lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14.According to the district attorney’s office…
The First Section of the Court of Gipuzkoa sentenced a man to twenty years, six months and fifteen days in prison for abusing and sexually assaulting his partner's minor son between 2017 and 2018. The High Court of the Basque Country upheld the sentence. The mother was sentenced to one year and nine months for failing to prevent the abuse, and this sentence was also upheld. The boy was 6-7 years old. According to the verdict, the man beat the ch…
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