VAN NUYS : Man Pleads Not Guilty to Sex Assault Charges
A man who is charged with raping four girls last fall while he was on parole for another rape pleaded not guilty Monday to 20 felony counts of sexual assault.
Robert Lee Donaldson, 34, was ordered to stand trial in Superior Court two weeks ago on charges of attacking two girls in Pacoima on Sept. 21 and 22 and two more in Inglewood on Oct. 11 and 18.
In addition, prosecutors expect to charge Donaldson with two counts of rape and single counts of sodomy and kidnaping in an Oct. 12 abduction of a 13-year-old girl who was walking to Inglewood’s Morningside High School, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Jacquelyn Lacey.
Like the other four girls, the 13-year-old victim was walking to school about 7:30 a.m. when she was grabbed from behind and taken to an abandoned apartment building, Lacey said. Even though the victim identified another man as her attacker, blood tests exonerated him. Altogether, Donaldson will face about 200 years in prison if he is convicted, Lacey said.
The Pacoima attacks occurred near the intersection of Van Nuys Boulevard and Borden Avenue. Donaldson was convicted of raping a 15-year-old boy in the same area in 1982. He was paroled about a year ago.
Donaldson is being held in lieu of $2-million bail.
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