Palmdale Man to Be Sentenced for Abuse
A former Santa Monica Police Department records technician faces up to 16 years in state prison after pleading no contest to molesting a co-worker’s son, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Robert Kubik, a 44-year-old Palmdale resident, repeatedly engaged in oral copulation between 1991 and 1996 with the son of a fellow employee, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. William Thomas. The boy is now 17.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Oct. 4, 1997 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Saturday October 4, 1997 Valley Edition Metro Part B Page 2 Zones Desk 2 inches; 56 words Type of Material: Correction
Molestation charge--An article in Thursday’s Times about former Santa Monica Police Department records technician Robert Kubik’s no contest plea to a child molestation charge incorrectly described the circumstances of Kubik’s departure from the department. Department spokesman Sgt. Gary Gallinot said Kubik was no longer a department employee, but did not reveal specifics of his departure.
Charges were filed after a two-week investigation by Antelope Valley sheriff’s detectives and Santa Monica police that included a search of Kubik’s home.
Last month, Kubik reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, admitting to one count of continuous sexual abuse. Nine related sexual molestation counts were then dismissed, Thomas said.
Kubik remained in jail in lieu of $500,000 bail pending an Oct. 21 hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court. At that time, a judge will review the plea bargain and set a sentencing date.
Although a judge could order probation and no jail term, Thomas predicted Kubik would serve at least six years.
Thomas declined to divulge details of the circumstances surrounding the sexual acts. The prosecutor said cases such as Kubik’s are not uncommon in the area.
“We certainly get a lot of molestations here in the Antelope Valley,” he said. “That’s common knowledge.”
Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Becker, who headed the investigation in the Antelope Valley, said authorities were notified of the allegations last month and moved “very quickly” to verify them.
Neither Becker nor Thomas would discuss what evidence was seized during the search of Kubik’s home.
“This [case] could still fall apart, so I’d rather not get into that,” Thomas said.
Sgt. Gary Gallinot, a spokesman for the Santa Monica police, said Kubik had been fired.
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