Sex Offender Found Gulity of Raping Four Women

A registered sex offender is facing 100 years to life in a California State Prison after an Orange County jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting four women in his apartment and secretly videotaping the rapes.

James Bledsoe, of Huntington Beach, California, was found guilty of multiple sex crimes. He was accused of luring intoxicated and drugged women to his apartment, then forced them to have sex while secretly recorded them on video. Orange County Prosecutors used his videos to demonstrate to the jury that he did not have consent of the women he picked up in local bars.

The most recent case was in December 2007. He picked up a 27-year-old woman home from a Costa Mesa nightclub. After a dip in his whirlpool bath, he secretly recorded them having consensual sex. But prosecutors claim that he turned off the camera and raped her. He turned on the camera again and refused to let the woman leave. The video shows the woman pleading to be allowed to leave before he sexually assaulted her as she fights to get away. She can be heard fighting him on the video, when he became angry and punched her in the stomach and yelled at her to get out of his apartment. The woman then reported the rape to the Huntington Beach police department.

Bledsoe attempted to flee the country by parking in San Diego and walking across the border into Mexico. When police stopped him, he tried to flee the scene, but was arrested shortly thereafter in San Diego.

During the investigation, Huntington Beach police detectives discovered numerous additional videos of women and identified three other sexual assault victims. In October 2007, he took a 21-year-old woman home from a Huntington Beach bar and recorded himself sexually assaulting her while she appeared to be under the influence of drugs. The woman woke up the next morning in his clothes, sick and in her own home.
She only remembered one one drink and did not remember anything else. She went to the hospital and filed a sexual assault report with police but could not remember being raped or who had sexually assaulted her.

In July, 2007, he took a 24-year-old woman to his apartment and videotaped himself raping her while she was unconscious. The woman woke up the next morning without knowing that she had been assaulted. In July 2007, parole agents discovered the woman's driver's license in his home during a parole search, and it later helped detectives connect her to the videos.

In another sexual assualt case, he went out drinking in June 2007 with a 21-year-old woman in Costa Mesa. The woman passed out and woke up to find him standing over her. He offered to take her home, but instead took her to his place and recorded himself sexually assaulting her. The woman came forward after police announced his arrest.

The jury convicted him of numerous felony assault charges. He also has a 2005 conviction for lewd acts on a child, for which he had to register for life as a sex offender. He is facing a minimum sentence of 100 years to life in prison for the rapes.

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