Rapist Sentenced for Valley, USC Attacks
A South-Central Los Angeles man charged with attacking three USC students was sentenced Friday to two life terms, plus an additional 18 years and eight months in prison for assaulting three other women at a North Hollywood complex in 1988.
Deon Proby, 20, was convicted in June in San Fernando Superior Court on seven felony counts--including robbery, kidnaping for robbery, and forced oral copulation--in connection with the attacks on the three North Hollywood women.
Proby was arrested in November, 1988, after robbing two women at gunpoint, then forcing them to drive him around.
In that incident, prosecutors said, Proby let one of the women go and was about to sexually assault the other when she broke free.
He fled in their car, but was arrested later that night while driving it near USC.
After his arrest, police linked Proby to two on-campus rapes of USC students and another kidnaping there.
He was also charged with a third attack at the North Hollywood apartment complex that occurred two months before his arrest.
He still faces trial on the charges stemming from the attacks at USC.
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