California suspect in women’s deaths now charged with rape
The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) – A Beverly Hills man arrested in connection with the drug overdose deaths of two unconscious women who were dumped at hospitals was charged Friday with sex assaults on four other women.David Pearce is accused of two counts of forcible rape and one count each of rape of an unconscious or asleep person and sexual penetration by a foreign object, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said.Pearce allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in 2010, raped another woman in 2019 and raped two more women last year, prosecutors said.Prosecutors didn’t immediately provide other details.Pearce remained jailed on $1 million bail Friday, Dec. 17, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether he had an attorney to speak on his behalf.P