Man Accused of Molesting Girl for Years in La Habra Heads to Trial

A 50-year-old man repeatedly molested a girl starting when she was 12 while he was dating her mother in La Habra, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, but the defendant’s attorney said the accuser is lying.

Mario Rodriguez Vasquez is charged with seven counts of forcible lewd acts on a child and two counts of lewd acts on a child aged 14 or 15, all felonies. He is accused of molesting the girl from 2017 through the end of 2019.

“Alone, confused and scared,” Deputy District Attorney Sean Riordan said in his opening statement of the trial…

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