Robbery, Burglary Also Alleged : Sepulveda Man Charged With 11 Rapes

The Los Angeles district attorney’s office charged a 25-year-old Sepulveda man Thursday with 28 felony counts in connection with the rapes of 11 women in the San Fernando Valley in less than two years.

Paul Avery Moran, a fire-extinguisher serviceman for a Canoga Park business, was arrested last Friday at his apartment and was being held at County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Linda Greenberg. Moran’s arraignment in Van Nuys Municipal Court on Thursday was continued until Feb. 6 by Commissioner John Gunn.

The attacks with which Moran is charged began in May, 1984, and continued until Dec. 26 last year, when a 17-year-old high school girl was raped at her apartment on Roscoe Boulevard in Reseda, Greenberg said.

The attack fit the pattern of the other rapes Moran is accused of committing.

A search warrant affidavit filed a day before Moran’s arrest said the suspect would characteristically break into an apartment or house where only a female was present in the early morning. Most of the attacks occurred on Thursday and Friday mornings in the Van Nuys area and in the northwest San Fernando Valley, Greenberg said.

The victims, ages 15 to 28, were tied and told to remain silent while the intruder searched homes for valuables, then he would then return and rape them, the affidavit said.

Moran was charged with 11 counts of rape, seven counts of sexual battery, three counts of forced oral copulation, two counts each of residential robbery, residential burglary and rape with a foreign object, and one count of attempted rape, Greenberg said.

Moran first came to the attention of authorities in October, 1984, when he was arrested for attempting to break into a Canoga Park home occupied by a woman who told police she saw him peering through a peephole in her front door, the court records say.

Ten months later, he was placed on three years’ probation and ordered to undergo weekly therapy for his “peeping Tom,” tendencies, the records show.

On Dec. 20, 1985, Moran was put under police surveillance after Detective Ed Evans told investigators assigned to the case that the description of the attacker matched that of Moran.

It was not explained how Moran could have raped the 17-year-old in Reseda six days after police began watching him.