Man charged with sex crimes comes face to face with accusers in court

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno antheral came face-to-face with immoderate of the women who accused him of sexually assaulting them.

"His caput was perpetually connected sex," she said.

Ezequiel Lopez sat with his lawyer successful tribunal connected Friday a fewer feet distant from the women. The justice did not let Action News to grounds the 28-year-old successful court, but we tin amusement you this mugshot.

Prosecutors person charged Lopez with a slew of felonies, including forced oral sex, kidnapping, having kid pornography, and holding radical against their will.

Lopez has pleaded not blameworthy to each 12 charges against him. Now, it is up to a Fresno justice to determine if prosecutors person capable grounds to instrumentality the lawsuit to trial.

As prosecutors made their case, they called 1 of the women to the stand. We could not grounds her arsenic she told the justice what went done her mind.

"I'm conscionable like, however americium I going to get retired of this? We support getting farther and farther away. I'm going to person to tally back."

Investigators accidental the pistillate was not the lone 1 Lopez assaulted. They accidental helium preyed connected 3 unhoused women on Ashlan Avenue backmost successful the outpouring of 2022.

One of the accusers was conscionable 17 years aged erstwhile she said the onslaught happened. She antecedently said Lopez had a rideshare sticker connected the model of this motortruck erstwhile she got inside.

When the women were wrong during the abstracted incidents, constabulary accidental Lopez showed them this BB gun.

The details of the assaults are excessively graphic for Action News to report. Two women who testified Friday said they were forced and scared.

"Did you locomotion distant calmly from the truck?" the authoritative asked. "No," the pistillate said. "I was moving and yelling 'help me, assistance me,'" she added.

"I truly don't privation to retrieve immoderate of it," she said later.

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