OAKLAND — A Berkeley man who was a suspect in a collection of random sexual assaults of women and girls has accepted a plea deal that may ship him to jail for 28 years, courtroom data present.
Tommy Giles Jr., 45, pleaded no contest to 4 youngster molestation and sexual assault prices and is scheduled to be formally sentenced on Might 15, courtroom data present. Although he solely accepted convictions for 4 victims, police mentioned Giles was a suspect in 5 sexual assaults of strangers that each one occurred inside a couple of weeks of one another in 2022.
Among the many crimes was a March 2022 incident the place Giles approached a 9-year-old woman who was strolling to high school, police mentioned; he then started masturbating, claimed to have a knife, and forcibly touched the woman’s genitals.
Two weeks later, in April 2022, he allegedly kidnapped a 23-year-old girl by claiming to have a knife, then sexually assaulted her in a vacant residence. One other abduction and sexual assault of a 23-year-old girl in Oakland that month was additionally linked to Giles.
Lastly, on Might 24, 2022, Giles allegedly accosted a 14-year-old woman, claimed to have a knife, sexually assaulted her, and left DNA on her physique. He was arrested later that day on suspicion of sexual battery. Throughout his subsequent police interview, authorities obtained a DNA pattern from him with out him figuring out, in response to courtroom papers.
Giles was additionally a suspect within the sexual battery of a 60-year-old girl on Might 21, 2022, in an incident the place the sufferer took footage of her attacker as he fled the world.
Police mentioned in courtroom data that in a police interview, Giles admitted to molesting the 9-year-old and blamed his personal “perversion” for the crime. However he disputed a few of the particulars that the woman described to authorities.
As a part of the plea deal, Giles must register as a intercourse offender and pay a as-yet-undetermined amount of cash to the victims, in response to prosecutors. In change for his plea, prosecutors dismissed a number of extra felony sexual assault-related prices.
Whereas he awaits sentencing, Giles will stay in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, the place he's being held with out bail.