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PD Man Will Stand Trial on Sex Charges

Judge says there is enough evidence to put Kenneth Anderson on trial

[Editor's note:  story is adult in content and nature]

 

 

A Palm Desert man accused of sexually assaulting a female relative and brandishing a firearm at her was ordered today to stand trial.

Kenneth Dean Anderson, 55, is charged with assault with intent to rape,
sodomize or orally copulate and penetration by a foreign object, both felonies,

along with a misdemeanor count of exhibiting a firearm, stemming from the
alleged Dec. 11 attack on the 27-year-old woman.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Johnston ruled there was
enough evidence for Anderson to stand trial following a 90-minute preliminary
hearing at the court's Indio Annex. Anderson is free on a $50,000 bond and is
due back in court on Oct. 18 for a post-preliminary hearing arraignment.

The woman testified that she was living at Anderson's house in the 73000
block of Guadalupe Avenue when he asked her to get out her sex toys on Dec.
10. She said he had made comments of a sexual nature to her in the past.
The woman said she left the house and returned around 1 a.m. on Dec. 11
to find him in the backyard looking at gay pornography on his laptop. He asked
her to come take a look, and she told him she didn't like it.

"I was a little disgusted,'' the witness said.

She said the next thing she knew, he was behind her, a heavy patio table
was in front of her, and "he's trying to force my pants down.''

She testified she held onto her belt buckle, but he got his hand inside
her pants and underwear and put his fingers in her vagina.

"I was telling him to stop, I was trying to fight to get him off me,
but I was stuck,'' she said.

She said she managed to get away and ran to a neighbor's house across
the street, then went back to Anderson's house a few hours later.

"He ran after me with a gun in his hand,'' she said, adding that she
recognized it as a handgun they had used to go target shooting together a few
days before.

She ran back across the street and hid behind a cement pillar at the
neighbor's house.

"I figured if he tried to shoot me, it would hit a cement pillar,'' she
said.

She testified that she called someone she knew, who called police. She
said Anderson had a drinking problem and had started consuming alcohol that
morning.

Anderson was booked at the Indio jail and posted a $50,000 bond on Dec.
15, according to court records.

CODE4N6 October 5, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Thats probably the most graphic rape article ive ever read.
CODE4N6 October 5, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Just shy of reading the actual report which, minus the victims name, is probably what I just did.
desertpatriot October 6, 2012 at 01:26 pm
'...to find him in the backyard looking at gay pornography on his laptop'
do we need more proof that this lifestyle should be questioned?
CODE4N6 October 6, 2012 at 01:45 pm
lol You often make good points patriot, but are you really implying that watching gay porn is a segway to rape? or that the gay lifestyle will lead a person to rape?
desertpatriot October 7, 2012 at 01:45 am
-dr. cameron’s obituary study has yielded some incredible statistics, including:
•gay males are 116 times more likely to be murdered as straight men •gay males are 24 times more likely to commit suicide •gay males are 18 times more likely to die in car accidents •gay males are 22 times more likely to die of heart-attacks as whites overall, and 11 times more likely as blacks •lesbians are 487 times more likely to die of murder, suicide or accident as straight women
CODE4N6 October 7, 2012 at 09:57 pm
so gays are more likely to be the victims of crime, not commit them. which is not surprising given the lack of acceptance they have just about everywhere.
desertpatriot October 9, 2012 at 06:01 pm
yes, gays are more likely to be "victims of crime" when it comes to gay-on-gay crime. "lack of acceptance"? the world will never accept those who violate their bodies. no matter how hollywood, far left loons, main stream media etc. try to spin it the world will never accept unnatural behavior
CODE4N6 October 10, 2012 at 02:18 pm
victims, not perpetrators. So the statistic you provided has no relevance. The rape was man v. woman and was not homosexual in any way. unless you were trying to argue that watching gay porn is a catalyst of criminal activity? but the statistic you provide only shows that there is a disparity in the amount of gays who are victims of unfortunate circumstances, not that gays are more likely to commit crime, nor did the fact that the pornography was gay had anything to do with the rape. now you could argue that porn in general can elevate the tendencies of rape, but i did not see that anywhere in your statistic either.
desertpatriot October 10, 2012 at 09:16 pm
-victim’s AND perps when it comes to gay-on-gay crime
-watching gay porn would indicate (to me anyway) this perp is a little unstable... which could explain the rape. porn in general would make unstable males more unstable. gays being more unstable than non-gays therefore would stand a greater chance of acting out aggressively when exposed to gay porn -perhaps the perp had something to prove to himself after watching gay porn; that he was about to enter the valley of sin where there's no goin' back. he better find a hot target quick and cleanse himself of any and all demons

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