PLEASANTON — Again in June, Christian Roberts bailed out of jail with a pending cost that he masturbated onto a lady in a Safeway, solely the newest time he’s confronted such an accusation.
In response to Pleasanton police, the 30-year-old native resident just lately re-offended, this time doing the identical factor to a 13-year-old woman who lived in his house complicated. Police say the 2 had been enjoying a sport of “hangman” that concerned him writing phrases onto her again, when the woman seen one thing was amiss and realized Roberts was sexually abusing her.
The alleged offense occurred on Oct. 22, in response to the prison grievance. Police say the woman’s mom known as 911.
Roberts allegedly videotaped the crime, however deleted the video when police arrived, then fled the realm. Police positioned him at a close-by gasoline station and arrested him there, noting that he was nonetheless carrying an ankle monitor as a situation of pretrial launch in his public masturbation case, in response to courtroom data.
Now Roberts is behind bars, going through a felony cost of committing a lewd act on a baby, courtroom data present. He’s additionally accused of violating the situations of his launch on $5,000 bail within the misdemeanor masturbation case.
In June, Roberts was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly masturbating onto an worker who was stocking cabinets in a Safeway in Oakland. In 2022, Roberts made headlines for accusations he’d engaged in comparable lewd conduct in two different Bay Space shops, in Palo Alto and American Canyon.
Napa County courtroom data say Roberts pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor intercourse offense and was sentenced to 101 days in jail and a one-year probation time period. His precise time behind bars was decreased by half since it’s thought-about a nonviolent offense, courtroom data present.
His probation was nonetheless lively when he allegedly dedicated the same offense in Oakland, in response to police. After posting $5,000 bail, he moved from Oakland to Pleasanton and befriended the alleged sufferer and her mom.
Roberts denied sexually abusing the woman in a police interview, however he admitted to promoting movies “of similar acts” on the web, police mentioned in courtroom filings. Roberts is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 4, and his bail has been set at $100,000.
Initially Printed: October 30, 2024 at 9:22 AM PDT
