Accused Child Molester Describes How He Chose Victim
An accused child molester testified Friday that he randomly chose a Pacoima home where he posed as a Department of Children’s Services investigator.
Richard Burriss, 51, a computer analyst from Palmdale, is on trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on 11 counts of molesting young girls in the Pacoima area.
He said he took a wrong turn off the freeway, found the home by accident and then returned several days later on March 21, 1994.
“In my travel, at a stop sign, I saw children playing in front of [an apartment],” he testified.
When Burriss returned to the apartment, he posed as a child abuse investigator, flashing a fake badge and homemade identification to the parents of a 7-year-old girl and telling them he wanted to speak to her alone.
The child, now 9, testified last week that Burriss took her to a bedroom and fondled her, she said.
Burriss is being held on $1 million bail.
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