Local News in Brief : Sun Valley Man Pleads Guilty in 2 Sex Attacks

A Sun Valley man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old relative and one of the boy’s friends was sentenced Friday to 23 years in state prison.

In an agreement with the district attorney’s office, Macarthur Blount, 43, pleaded guilty last month to two counts of forcible oral copulation and one count of forcible sodomy for the assaults, which occurred in August, 1984, and last November.

The friend of Blount’s relative was sodomized during the November assault, when Blount woke the boy, who was spending the night at Blount’s apartment, and dragged him into another room, Deputy Dist. Atty. Maureen Duffy-Lewis said.

The boy escaped and ran home to report the assault to his mother when Blount fell asleep, Duffy-Lewis said.

The August, 1984 attack on Blount’s relative was not reported until after the second boy told his mother about the assault.

San Fernando Superior Court Judge John H. Major sentenced Blount to six years in prison for each of the charges and an additional five years for having a previous felony conviction. According to a probation report, Blount was convicted in 1976 of molesting another of his relatives and the son of his girlfriend.

In the probation report, Blount, who admitted to using drugs and alcohol, claimed to be suffering from “delayed stress syndrome” after spending 2 1/2 years of Army service in Vietnam between 1966 and 1971. The report said he received therapy at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Sepulveda after his 1976 conviction.