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Detectives with the Special Victims Unit of the Sheriff’s Department are investigating a report of a Santa Clarita Valley realtor who was raped while showing a home in Valencia.
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The victim reported to deputies she was showing a home in the evening of May 30 in the 28000 block of Pietro Drive in Valencia.
The woman met the man, had alcoholic beverages with the man in the home where the alleged suspect was posing as a prospective client, and the woman reported she was drugged and then sexually assaulted.
“Detectives have identified a suspect,” said Sgt. Brian Hudson of the Special Victim Unit of the Sheriff’s Department, “however, the case is being actively investigated.”
The report comes days after the Sheriff’s Department data indicates the year-to-date number of reported rapes has doubled from 2014 to 2015, from eight to 16 within city limits; in unincorporated areas, the rise was less significant, from three to four, over the same five-month period last year. There was a total of 23 reported last year in the entire Santa Clarita Valley patrol area.
The suspect’s name is not being released at this time, according to Sheriff’s Department officials.
No other information is available at this time.
A local official with the Southland Regional Association of Realtors offered safety tips, many of which are on the group’s site, in response to news of the recent assault.
“We recommend that you always meet someone for the first time at the office,” said Nancy Lulejian Starczyk, government affairs officer and past president of the SRAR. A realtor also should bring someone with them if they have any concerns or are not sure about the person with whom they are meeting.
“It’s important to remember,” she said, “that you are very, very vulnerable when you’re alone.”
The California Association of Realtors, as well as the national association, have resource pages for safety advice for realtors who show homes.
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You should never drink alcoholic beverages while conducting business. I am so sorry for the victim!
You DO NOT have Alcoholic beverages in a clients home while showing it to a potential buyer. Yes this woman is a victim and that is tragic, but she should have her real estate licence status reviewed for clearly unethical conduct on her own part.
She wasn’t raped, that’s what women who drink to much claim to protect themselves. She should have never of been drinking with a client. Period. She put herself in that position. I don’t do well with women who lie about something so serious. I am someone who was raped, and alcohol is just a lousy drunks excuse.
This is horrible– and preventable.
PerpAlert.com can help.
EVERY realtor… EVERY person should have this inexpensive app on their phone. My wife and I both do.
I carry a taser with me that clips on my skirt.It is really sad that you can’t have faith in people anymore.
What on earth was she doing enjoying an alcoholic beverage in a sellers home alone with a previously unknown prospective male client!
Thank God she is alive. I will download perpAlert.com. Thank you.
If the realtor was really conducting business, why would she agree to drink in someone else’s home with someone she didn’t know? Maybe the house was vacant and she really wasn’t trying to sell the house? There are too many questions that need to be answered before we can have pitty, or lay blame. Let’s just wait for all the details to be released.
She isn’t the smartest realtor and hopefully this serves as a warning to others. I hope they catch the SOB we can do a public amputation of his appendage
Wouldn’t that be a pubic amputation then?!?
This story is loaded because of the way it words the part about alcohol being a possible factor. I think we all realize it’s not smart to drink alcohol in this situation, but we don’t know what happened for sure. Maybe there was some wine available as part of the showing. That is not uncommon. There is never an excuse for rape. NEVER. So, stop trying to make the realtor look like the guilty one!!
This is why CCW is a must, and the realtor should always have the clients info identified for purchase before the relationship as a client before the meetings!
And then drinking alcoholic beverages on top of it?
Don’t know what to say about that but hope she’s not infected and ok! Please post the criminals information so we all in Santa Clarita could hang him.