Rasaan Raymon Patton: The Prints of a Predator
On October 30, 1997 Rasaan Raymon Patton, of Perris, California, raped a woman who had been drugged. He was convicted of this crime and since then he has been a registered sex offender. On February 1 of this year, Patton was charged with beating his wife and failure to register as a sex offender. According to court records, these charges would have made his second "strike." What prosecutors didn’t know at the time, was that back in June of 2008, Patton had already struck.
On June 21, 2008, at around 2:40 in the morning, 28-year-old Rasaan Raymon Patton felt a strong urge to rape another female. He began to follow a seventeen-year-old girl who was headed back to her home. As they proceeded down Yorktown Avenue in Huntington Beach, Patton crashed his vehicle into the girl’s car, causing a minor crash. This was no accident. When the girl pulled over, Patton attacked her. The girl managed to escape Patton and reported the incident to police the next day. Investigators were able to recover a hand print from the vehicle. That print would prove valuable almost a year later, when it was matched to Patton
On April 13, 2009, authorities in Riverside County arrested Patton at his home in Perris. He was arraigned yesterday at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana in Orange County, where his most recent attack occurred. Patton was charged with (1) kidnapping to commit robbery, rape, oral copulation, or sodomy, (2) sexual penetration with an object with force, (3) attempted forcible rape, and (4) sexual battery. The charges are all felonies, and Patton may get to spend the rest of his life in prison with others who share his inclination to rape.
Patton is being held in the Orange County jail on a $1,000,000.00 bond. This is a man who never needs to see the light of freedom again. He has no regard for the law, for citizens, or even the consequences of his actions. May he die within the malodorous concrete walls of prison
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