2 Plead No Contest to Kidnap, Sex Counts
Two men from the Lennox area pleaded no contest Monday to charges of kidnaping and sexually assaulting a cellist as she left a concert rehearsal at El Camino College and of abducting and trying to rape a Hawthorne woman.
In pleading no contest to eight felony counts, Francisco Morales agreed to accept a prison sentence of 36 years, while Jose Trujillo said he would accept a 25-year prison term. A Torrance Superior Court judge is scheduled to formally sentence the pair at a hearing on Aug. 20, Deputy Dist. Atty. Ron Geltz said.
Morales and Trujillo were accused of staging two kidnapings in three days last March. During the first incident, the pair abducted a 28-year-old Hawthorne woman and tried to rape her at knifepoint. Three days later, the two men attacked a 23-year-old woman in a parking lot at El Camino College near Torrance.
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