Man Convicted in 1 Rape Case Pleads Guilty in 2nd

Kyle Joseph Borges, convicted last month in attacks on two young girls in 1989, pleaded guilty Monday to raping a 50-year-old Huntington Beach woman.

Borges, 31, who had been acquitted two years ago of rape in a separate case after there was a snafu involving prosecution evidence, faces a maximum sentence of nearly 65 years in prison when he is sentenced by Superior Court Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald on April 12.

Borges’ attorney, Patrick McNeal, said his client decided to plead guilty because he wanted to get the case over with.

“He’s tired of being in jail,” said McNeal of Borges, who is in Orange County Jail. “If he didn’t plead to this other case, it would probably take about two years to bring to trial. He doesn’t want to wait here that long.”

Borges also faces a trial on other rape charges in Long Beach.

He was convicted last month in the Sept. 24, 1989, rape of a 12-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Sea Cliff on the Greens, a gated community in Huntington Beach. The girl was taken to a rural wooded area, raped, then abandoned along a road.

In the trial for that case, Borges was also convicted of assault with intent to commit rape in an attack less than two weeks before on a 14-year-old Dana Point girl who was awakened by a man standing above her with his hand over her mouth. The man ran when the girl’s mother awakened.

The attack on the 50-year-old Huntington Beach woman occurred the same week as the Dana Point incident. Police said that victim was raped during the night by an attacker who had crawled through an unlocked bedroom window.

The attacks occurred after Borges had been acquitted in April, 1989, in a separate case involving a 46-year-old Anaheim Hills woman. Prosecutors in that case had sent a sample of Borges’ blood to a private laboratory for DNA testing for comparison to the DNA in a semen sample taken from the victim. Although the tests showed that the DNA codings matched, the results could not be prepared in time for the trial. The victim’s identification of her attacker was shaky, and jurors, unaware of the DNA results, said later that they had found inconsistencies in the prosecution’s case.