Los Angeles - Videos anonymously delivered to authorities show men sexually assaulting at least 10 severely handicapped women, sheriff's officials said Thursday.
An spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said somebody had dropped off DVD’s containing more than 100 hours of video depicting a series of sexual assaults on women, all of whom appear to be disabled, with a note saying the DVD’s were copied from a computer hard drive that the person had been asked to clean.
Authorities said the footage was shot at several locations, including one that appeared to be a residential care facility. They said the videos could have been recorded anywhere but they believed they were made in the Los Angeles area during the past three years.
One assailant was wearing an LA hat; another appeared to be a paraplegic resident of a care facility who rolled into a woman's room in a wheelchair, climbed out of it, assaulted a victim and then wheeled away.
Detectives received the videos in March. They went public with the investigation to seek the public's help in identifying where and when the videos were shot, as well as the identity of the suspects who were captured on tape.
The videos were not being released, but composite drawings of four of the suspects created from the footage were shown to the media during a news conference at the Sheriff's Department’s headquarters in Monterey Park. - Sapa-AP