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ONTARIO - For the third time in four years, Rafael Rodriguez Valadez, 32, has been accused of molesting a young child after befriending the family and moving in.
Rodriguez was arrested Wednesday night and has pleaded not guilty to a charge of committing a forcible lewd act on a girl, 6, in 2003. In the country illegally, he is being held without bail on an immigration warrant. He previously has been deported to Mexico.
The current charge stems from a report that Rodriguez molested an Ontario girl sometime in 2003. Parra said that Rodriguez is alleged to have befriended the child's family and moved into her home.
In September 2005, Rodriguez was charged with lewd acts on twin 9-year-olds in Ontario--a boy and a girl. The case was dropped in February 2006, days before a jury trial was set to begin. Within three weeks of being released from jail, Rodriguez was arrested and charged again, this time with lewd acts, forcible lewd acts, sodomy and penetration with a foreign object on an 8-year-old Ontario girl. Two weeks after his arraignment, that case also was dropped. Officials said there were problems with ensuring the victims' cooperation and their recollections of the events.
In all of the alleged incidents, the man is suspected of making death threats to the children and their families if they spoke up.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_arrest29.3b909a7.html.
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