RIVERSIDE — A 24-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl and exposing himself to several children in the Corona area is slated to be arraigned later this month on more than a dozen felony charges.
Bryan Josue Flores Valdez of Eastvale was arrested last week following an investigation by the Riverside County Child Exploitation Team, composed of law enforcement personnel from the District Attorney’s Office, municipal police agencies countywide, the U.S. Marshals and California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation.
Valdez is charged with multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of a minor, sexually assaulting a child under 10 years old, possession of child pornography, use of a minor to produce obscene material and annoying a child, as well as one count of importing child porn into the state.
Valdez made his initial court appearance on Friday, when Superior Court Judge Gail O’Rane appointed him a public defender and scheduled his arraignment for Aug. 23 at the Riverside Hall of Justice.
Valdez was being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning.
According to the D.A.’s Office, earlier this summer, the defendant allegedly appeared outside several elementary schools in the Corona-Norco Unified School District and displayed his genitals to girls who passed by him.
Valdez was arrested for the alleged exposure offenses but posted bond. Shortly afterward, RCCET investigators were alerted to the possible sexual assault of a girl, though the circumstances were not specified.
Further investigation confirmed the child had been sexually abused, prosecutors alleged.
Valdez was re-arrested last Wednesday and charged with the new counts.
The defendant has no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.
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