An alleged stalker admitted to trying to have sex with young
girls at least four times, police said.
An alleged stalker admitted to trying to have sex with young girls at least four times, police said.
Court documents reveal that Jose David Gonzalez-Raygoza, 26, confessed to following a 15-year-old girl, another girl near Glen View Elementary School that could have been a 10-year-old and two other young girls on four separate occasions. Police also seized his cell phone, which had two pictures of a girl and a picture of his genitals. He is scheduled to appear in court today.
“From my interview with Gonzalez-Raygoza it became very clear to me that he intentionally targets juvenile females and that his intentions are to try and have a sexual relationship with them,” officer Royce Heath wrote in a report submitted for evidence.
Gonzalez-Raygoza – an illegal immigrant who was living on the 7100 block of Yorktown Drive in Gilroy but is now in custody – will enter a plea at the San Martin courthouse this afternoon on two misdemeanor charges of annoying of molesting a child. If convicted, he could spend two years in jail and be fined $10,000.
Police say that about 3 p.m. Nov. 9, Gonzalez-Raygoza slowly drove next to a 15-year-old girl as she walked home from Gilroy High School along the 6900 block of Glenview Drive. He then pulled over to the side of the road and said in Spanish, “come here and get in the truck.” After that, he pointed to her and then to a nearby street, signaling that he wanted her to turn down it.
The girl ran back to her house while calling her mother on her cell phone, police said. At home, the girl and her mother looked out a window and saw Gonzalez-Raygoza in his truck sitting at the end of a nearby cul-de-sac.
Soon afterward, the pair biked to a nearby Mexican restaurant, Tacos El Grullense Jal, police said. While they were eating, Gonzalez-Raygoza entered the restaurant. The pair borrowed a pen and piece of paper to get his license plate then left on their bikes. Gonzalez-Raygoza followed them in his car then disappeared.
The girl again ventured outside – this time to buy some sweet bread – when she saw Gonzalez-Raygoza following her, police said. When the daughter returned and told her mom, the mom called police, scared “because it was clear to her that Gonzalez-Raygoza knew where they lived and … would return at a later time and take her daughter,” Heath wrote.
Police responded to the call and were interviewing the girl about 5:30 p.m. when she saw Gonzalez-Raygoza’s truck pull across the street into a parking lot of the 76 gas station near the intersection of Monterey and 10th streets.
“That’s him, there he is,” the girl said.
Police arrested Gonzalez-Raygoza without incident and interviewed him back at the station. During the interview, he initially denied following the girl, but said that he ran into her several times that afternoon and that she taunted him by “sticking her butt out.”
However, Gonzalez-Raygoza later said he followed the girl, told her to get into the truck and that “he would have had sex with her if she would have let him,” Heath wrote. He then said he attempted to pick up young girls on three other occasions and that he was often in the area of Glen View school, driving “through that area to ‘check out’ the girls.”
On Oct. 7, a man described as 40 to 50 years old, overweight and with black hair and a mustache, followed a 10-year-old girl in a white truck before a neighbor came out and gave him a disgusted look, police said. This incident is the source of one of the charges against Gonzalez-Raygoza, a heavyset man with black hair.
Gonzalez-Raygoza’s admissions do not guarantee a conviction, said Supervising Deputy District Attorney Michael Fletcher.
“His admission is to being present and part of the event, but you have to show an unnatural interest in children,” he said. “The intent is the more problematic part of it.”
As for the prospects of a plea bargain, Fletcher said that would depend on how prosecutors view Gonzalez-Raygoza.
“If the belief is there is rehabilitation prospects, obviously that isn’t going to take place until somebody admits,” he said. “As a prosecutor, you see somebody who admits with a different eye. Maybe there’s a conception that it’s going to happen anyway, or maybe they have some moral fiber in them.”
