ADULT TRIAL SOUGHT FOR RAPE SUSPECT.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted is scheduled Monday for a 16-year-old student charged with raping a classmate in the Saugus High School Saugus High School may refer to:
Based on evidence presented by Sheriff's Department investigators, prosecutors on Friday filed one count each of rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment false imprisonment, complete restraint upon a person's liberty of movement without legal justification. Actual physical contact is not necessary; a show of authority or a threat of force is sufficient. The person falsely imprisoned may sue the offender for damages. and one other sex crime, said Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Ulfig. The defendant, from Castaic, was being held without bail at Sylmar Juvenile Hall pending his arraignment. He was arrested Wednesday after the 15-year-old girl told authorities she had been pulled into a storage area and attacked while other students were out of the room. ``She cried for help . . . but no one heard her,'' Ulfig said in a statement. ``After she was released, she reported the sexual assault immediately.'' The suspect's name has been withheld because he is a minor. Although the case was filed in Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial , authorities want to try the youth - who will turn 17 in September - as an adult. Under that scenario, he would be sent to state prison if found guilty, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. ``If he were convicted as a juvenile, he could be confined until age 25 in the California Youth Authority,'' she said. A conviction in Juvenile Court would be sealed, meaning the teen-ager would have no adult criminal record upon his release from the CYA CYA Cover your ass. See Defensive medicine. , Gibbons said. If tried as an adult and found guilty, the teen would have one strike on his criminal record and would have to do hard time in the state prison system, Gibbons said. Officials with the sheriff's Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. station said the youth is a gang member on probation for a variety of offenses. John Hassel, a member of the William S. Hart Union High School District board, said district administrators will review campus security issues in response to the incident. ``It was a shocker shock·er n. One that startles, shocks, or horrifies, as a sensational story or novel. Noun 1. shocker - a shockingly bad person bad person - a person who does harm to others 2. to everyone . . . to realize that this might be happening in our schools or anywhere in our community,'' said Hassel, a retired Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy. ``We're going to be reviewing each of the facilities for potential hazard areas. You might call it a risk assessment,'' Hassel said. ``Unfortunately, these (schools) were designed in another era, when that was not a concern.'' |
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