2 Plead Guilty in Series of Kidnapings, Rapes : Crime: A woman and two girls were abducted in the Van Nuys area, taken to an Acton ranch and assaulted.

Two men pleaded guilty Wednesday to all charges stemming from three separate sexual assaults in which a woman and two girls were abducted from San Fernando Valley streets, taken to a remote Acton ranch and raped.

Paul James McDaniel, 23, of Canyon Country and Theodore Robert Conyers, 26, of Acton entered the pleas in Van Nuys Superior Court.

McDaniel, a construction worker, pleaded guilty to 14 charges, including four of rape and three of kidnaping.

He faces a maximum of 57 years when sentenced June 12 by Judge John Fisher.

Conyers, who was unemployed at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty to nine charges, including two of kidnaping and two of rape, and could be sentenced to 33 years in prison.

The abductions and assaults occurred between November, 1989 and June, 1990. McDaniel and Conyers were arrested after a 15-year-old victim provided police with a telephone number she had gotten from McDaniel.

Police said they then linked the two men to the abductions of two other victims, ages 14 and 31.

In each of the cases, the victims were ordered into a pickup truck in the Van Nuys area and driven to a guest house at the Acton ranch owned by relatives of Conyers.

After the victims were assaulted, the men returned them to the area where they picked them up.

Conyers’ attorney, John Ponist, said that by pleading guilty the two men avoided facing maximum sentences, which would have added seven years to Conyers’ term and 14 years to McDaniel’s.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Lea Purwin D’Agostino said that the evidence against the two was “overwhelming,” including confessions from both men, and that she would not have accepted guilty pleas from the men to anything less than all of the charges.

She said the guilty pleas saved the victims the trauma of having to testify at a trial.