Child molestation suspects Jason Valentine Esparza Arrested’ Law enforcement authorities in California are asking for the public’s help in identifying additional victims of a 57-year-old man accused of grooming women to babysit children as young as four and bring them to hotels so he could molest them.
Authorities say they believe that the sexual assaults on young children have occurred for several decades.
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Child molestation suspect Jason Valentine Esparza Arrested
Jason Valentine Esparza was taken into custody earlier this month and charged with three felony counts of attempted oral copulation or sexual penetration of a child 10 years old or younger and two felony counts of attempted forcible lewd act on a child under the age of 14, authorities announced.
“Someone who preys on the innocence of children for their own sexual gratification is a monster of indescribable evil,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement on Friday. “To plot, to calculate, and methodically carry out sexual attacks on unconscious children is something that can only be dreamt of and carried out by the sickest of minds. Children rely on adults for their safety and security, and as prosecutors, we do everything we can to protect our children from adults who would harm them and ensure these monsters will never be able to harm another child again.”
According to a press release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, the investigation into Esparza began after detectives with the Huntington Beach Police Department received an anonymous tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) program in September 2022.
