San Diego Resident Sentenced to 295 Years to Life In Prison
George Moreland, 47, was sentenced on Friday to 295 years to life in prison.
The San Diego criminal was charged and convicted with nine felony counts including false imprisonment by force and forced oral copulation. The defendant sexually assaulted two women from Tijuana after offering them a job as his housekeeper for his Rancho San Diego home. Moreland alleged that the sex was consensual and that he had paid the two women. The assaults took place at his home in the summer of 2009 after he picked up the two women separately. Deputy District Attorney Rachel Cano said during trial that on July 7 2009, the defendant showed a married 28-year-old woman some cleaning materials and then told her to undress. When she refused him and his offering of 400 dollars Moreland pulled a knife on her and made her perform oral sex on him.
On October 1, 2009, a woman in her 40s went through a similar ordeal with Moreland and was able to provide the general area of where she was taken to investigators. Moreland has a prior conviction of kidnapping for sexual purposes where he was given an eight-year prison sentence for tying up a female customer in 1997 in the back of a Radio Shack store.
Moreland’s San Diego Criminal Defense Attorney Leslie Wolf said during the trial that Moreland had wrote the woman a note asking her if she wanted to perform a sex act and that to Moreland’s understanding she had agreed.
Man Who Assaulted Cleaning Women Sentenced, 10news.com, January 7, 2011
Man Who Molested Cleaning Women Sentenced Friday, sandiego6.com, January 7, 2011
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