Woman Says Ruse Tricked Her Into Sex : ‘Wanted to Save Myself a Lot of Pain,’ Witness Testifies

An Orange County woman testified Tuesday that she paid a man $750 to have sex with her because she was told it was the fastest way to cure a fatal blood disease and that she wanted “to save myself a lot of pain.”

Testifying against Daniel Kayton Boro, 44, at a preliminary hearing in North Orange County Municipal Court, Linda Matsui of Stanton said she had received a call March 20 from a man who identified himself as a doctor from a nearby clinic.

The caller told Matsui, 23, that tests showed her blood to be tainted with a cancerous germ that could be fatal if not treated immediately, said Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Judy Velasquez, the prosecutor in the case. The caller said Matsui either could undergo a painful and expensive surgery or have sex with a man who had been injected with a special serum, Velasquez said.

$50,000 Bail

Boro, who was tried in a similar case in San Francisco three years ago, is charged with obtaining sex by fraud and providing false information to a police officer. He is being held on $50,000 bail.

In 1984, Boro was arrested in San Francisco on suspicion of rape and fraud. He was subsequently convicted of one of the rapes, but an appellate court overturned the verdict in 1985.

The appellate court’s ruling in Boro’s case led to a 1986 law that made it a felony to use false information to obtain sex.

Throughout most of Matsui’s testimony Tuesday, defense attorney William G. Kelley instructed Boro to sit on the courtroom floor behind a partition. When Kelley then had Boro move to the defendant’s table, Matsui could not identify him as the man with whom she had intercourse at a Anaheim hotel room the day of the call.

Matsui asked if she could hear Boro speak, but Judge Margaret R. Anderson denied the request, saying that it was not the appropriate time for a voice identification.

The prosecution’s second witness and the woman involved in Boro’s 1985 rape case, Mariana De Bella , of Pacifica, Calif., did identify Boro as the man with whom she had intercourse in a hotel room in March, 1984, after she received a call similar to Matsui’s from a “Dr. Stevens.”

‘A Healing Effect’

De Bella said the caller told her that she had contracted a blood disease from use of a public restroom and that the cures were a $9,000 operation or sex, at a cost of $4,500, with a “donor” who had undergone a painful serum injection.

“Through intercourse, it would release the serum and it would take a healing effect,” De Bella said.

De Bella said she bought a bottle of white wine before she met Boro at a Sheraton Hotel room, but when he “expressed a dislike for it,” she ordered him a drink from room service. De Bella testified that she never paid Boro the $1,000 she had taken out of the bank to serve as a down payment for the “cure” because the sex act was interrupted by a hotel manager.

Matsui said the man she met in the Anaheim hotel room instructed her to “get cranberry juice and grapefruit juice and drink water that night” as a follow-up treatment.