The family of an elderly woman with dementia released video of her sexual assault in order to help police identify the suspect and arrest him.
The horrendous abuse unfolded on Monday at about 6:45 p.m. at the woman’s apartment in Pacoima in southern California.
The video shows the man entering the home of the 81-year-old woman after she answered the door, according to the family. He then went and checked the other rooms before returning and assaulting the woman, and making her perform sex acts on him.
The victim’s son-in-law spoke to KABC-TV about the execrable incident but wanted his face blurred to protect his identity and that of the victim.
“The video catches him doing things that I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” said the victim’s relative. “There’s a lot of elderly people in the community. This guy needs to be off the streets. It’s probably not the first time and it won’t be the last time he’s done this, or will do this.”
He said that the family had set up the camera so that no one could see it.
“The camera in the living room is pretty hidden and we hid it from her,” the son-in-law explained. “To avoid her from trying to turn it off. And he never saw that camera in the living room.”
On Friday afternoon,…
