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Suspect Faces New Sex Count : Crime: Kyle Joseph Borges is now accused of 11 felonies, including burglary, kidnap, rape and lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor.

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An unemployed construction worker already accused of kidnaping and raping a Huntington Beach girl last month was charged Monday with the attempted rape of a Dana Point teen-ager who narrowly escaped her attacker’s grasp when her mother awoke.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Ariadne Symons said the Dana Point attack occurred Sept. 7, roughly three weeks before Kyle Joseph Borges was arrested in connection with the abduction of the 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl from a condominium in the exclusive Sea Cliff on the Greens development.

In the Dana Point incident, a man entered a home on De Leon Drive through an unlocked window and went into the bedroom of a 14-year-old girl, Sheriff’s Lt. Richard J. Olson said. When attempts to muffle her screams failed and the girl’s mother awakened, the man fled, Olson added.

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Symons submitted the new charges of burglary and attempted rape against Borges during his arraignment Monday before West Orange County Municipal Court Judge Alan D. McKone in Westminster.

Borges, who is being held without bail in Orange County Jail, now stands accused of 11 felonies, including burglary, attempted burglary, kidnap, rape, lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor and forceful sexual penetration by a foreign object. He also faces a misdemeanor count of prowling.

Borges, 29, pleaded not guilty to the charges, and McKone scheduled a preliminary hearing for Nov. 21 to determine whether there is enough evidence to try the suspect in Superior Court.

Four of the attempted burglary counts allege that Borges either entered or tried to enter the homes of four women inside Sea Cliff on the Greens on the night of Sept. 24, the same evening the Huntington Beach girl was abducted.

Deputy Public Defender Vicki Carter Briles, Borges’ attorney, said it was too soon to discuss the case because she has just been assigned to it.

Borges, a transient, was arrested Sept. 26, two days after the 12-year-old was kidnaped while she slept with a friend on a living room sofa in her father’s two-story condominium.

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Huntington Beach police said the girl was raped, then pushed nude from her abductor’s truck near Smokey’s Stables in county territory south of the intersection of Warner Avenue and Bolsa Chica Street, about a mile from her home.

According to court documents, Borges has a lengthy record of arrests and was once acquitted of sexual assault charges after a controversial trial in which he was accused of raping an Anaheim Hills woman in October, 1988.

Prosecutors have contended that Borges went free in that case because a laboratory backlog prevented them from offering new genetic evidence that they believed would have directly linked him to the crime.

Shortly after Borges’ arrest in the Huntington Beach incident, Salt Lake City police said that he might be a suspect in five sexual assaults of girls 13 years old or younger in the Salt Lake area. On Monday, Police Sgt. Roy Wasden said that Borges is no longer a prime suspect in those attacks.

“We’ve pretty much eliminated him,” Wasden said. “We have developed information leading to another suspect. But he’s someone we want to keep an eye on because of his contacts in St. George (Utah).”

Borges has relatives, including his mother, in St. George, about 300 miles south of Salt Lake City. Police said they believe that Borges visited Utah in May after his acquittal in the Anaheim Hills rape case.

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