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$25,000 REWARD OFFERED FOR TIPS ON RAPIST.


Byline: Deborah Sullivan Staff Writer

Three days after a woman was raped in front of her 8-year-old son after church services in Canoga Park, the Los Angeles City Council The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States.  issued a $25,000 arrest for information leading to the apprehension The seizure and arrest of a person who is suspected of having committed a crime.

A reasonable belief of the possibility of imminent injury or death at the hands of another that justifies a person acting in Self-Defense against the potential attack.
 of the suspect police believe is a serial rapist rap·ist  
n.
One who commits rape.

Noun 1. rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
raper

aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks
.

The suspect is connected to attacks on six women in five incidents in the West Valley and Van Nuys since March 29, police said. Twice, the victims' children were present.

``I'm hopeful in offering this reward, that the kind of information leading to his arrest and conviction will emerge,'' said Councilwoman Laura Chick, who called for the city to post the reward.

``This kind of sexual violence against women, and in the presence of their children, is just the most heinous hei·nous  
adj.
Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime.



[Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from
 crime.''

On Tuesday, the rapist kidnapped Kidnapped

caught in the intrigues of Scottish factions, David Balfour and Alan Breck are shipwrecked, escape from the king’s soldiers, and undergo great dangers. [Br. Lit.: R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped]

See : Adventurousness
 the 30-year-old woman and her 8-year-old son and forced the woman at gunpoint to drive from a church parking lot to a nearby bank, where he raped her in front of her son, then fled on foot, detectives said.

On Friday, police said they had no new leads on the case and had no suspects under investigation.

Chick said she hopes the reward will draw attention to the danger posed by the rapist at large, encouraging women ``to be cautious, to take extra precautions precautions Infectious disease The constellation of activities intended to minimize exposure to an infectious agent; precautions imply that the isolation of an infected Pt is optional, but not mandatory. , to lock their cars as soon as they get in them, to try not to get into cars in unsafe places, to be looking around them.''
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jul 31, 1999
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