Man Pleads Not Guilty to Rape of Baby-Sitter
A Glendale man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of raping a 21-year-old woman whom he had hired as a baby-sitter.
The man, Carlos Ramon Rodriguez, 35, remains in custody in lieu of $50,000 bail. A bail reduction hearing is scheduled for today.
Police said Rodriguez was arrested last week after an Inglewood woman reported that she was raped in Rodriguez’s two-bedroom duplex in the 500 block of Riverdale Drive.
The woman told police she was contacted by Rodriguez in response to an advertisement she had placed on a Spanish-language radio station offering her services as a baby-sitter and cleaning woman.
She told police that after Rodriguez raped her, he placed an ad in a Latino newspaper for another baby-sitter before returning the victim to her home.
Glendale police spokesman Dean Durand said investigators are searching for other women who may have responded to Rodriguez’s Oct. 16 ad.
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