Man Gets 5 Years for Sex Attacks on Fellow Hospital Patients in Huntington Beach
SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 28-year-old man was sentenced May 2 to five years in prison for raping two women at Huntington Beach Hospital, where all three were patients.
Adrian Alfredo Sanchez of Garden Grove pleaded guilty Dec. 13 to rape of an incompetent person, rape, and two counts of assault with the intent to commit a sex offense, all felonies. He was given credit for 780 days in jail and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
Sanchez was a “patient in the psychiatric ward of Huntington Beach Hospital,” his attorney Salvador Silva said in court papers. “Defendant had been admitted for schizophrenia and anxiety.”…