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A man who was taken more than a decade after a series of cold cases sexual assault In Vancouver pleaded guilty on Monday.
Arturo Garcia Gorjon was charged in 2023 in connection with four sexual assaults which occurred in 2009 and 2010.
His case sparked an outcry when, in opposition to the recommendations of the police and the crown prosecutors, he was released on bail of $ 15,000.
The police began investigating three sexual assault in 2011 – one near the island of Granville, one in the West End and one in Yaletown – which had all taken place in 2009.
It was not until 12 years later, however, that they were able to link a fourth sexual assault that took place on Christmas Eve 2010 in downtown Vancouver to the other three, the critical break of the case that finally led them to Garcia Gorjon.
The court heard the details of three assaults on Monday.
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In an incident in June 2009, Garcia Gorjon caught a woman and threw her on the ground, before pushing her head on her crotch and underwear, learned the court. The victim’s friend withdrew him and he fled.
In November, the same year, he held the charge of a woman’s skirt and got on her knees next to her when she was looking for her mailbox key early in the morning. The victim shouted and broke him on the head and shoulders, and he fled.
And in December 2010, he assaulted another woman as she was looking for her keys outside her building in the city center. The court heard that he had pushed her into the glass doors of the building, got on his knees and started licking his genitals. She was able to fight him and he fled.
The court heard on Monday how DNA had found on the three underwear of the victims corresponding to Garcia Gorjon.
Garcia Gorjon pleaded guilty to three chiefs of sexual assault and apologized to the court of his victims and society, saying that he had to show his responsibility to his son and daughter.
He told court that he had a drug and alcohol problem at the time, but that he had since transformed his life.
“I have improved, change is possible,” he said.
Outside the field, dressed in sunglasses and a facial mask with a bucket of bucket lowered on his face, Garcia Gorjon said “staying away from drugs and alcohol”, but refused to answer questions from Global News.
The court has not yet set a date of conviction.
With Rumina Daya files
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