#drug-facilitated-sexual-assault

#drug-facilitated-sexual-assault

A serial rapist who drugged his victims to attack them at his London apartment and used hidden cameras to covertly record women is set to be sentenced. Chao Xu, a 33-year-old Chinese national, used networking parties at his Greenwich apartment to draw in potential victims before plying them with a drink laced with drugs. After his arrest, Met Police detectives found hidden cameras in Xu's bathroom, including one secreted inside an air freshener, and also recovered videos and images showing he was a prolific upskirter on London's transport network.

David Brian Pearce, a Los Angeles man who lured women into his orbit by claiming he was a Hollywood producer, was sentenced Wednesday to 146 years to life for the fatal overdose of a model and her friend, as well as the sexual assaults of multiple women over 16 years. Pearce, 43, was convicted in February on two counts of first-degree murder in the overdose deaths of 24-year-old model Christy Giles and 26-year-old Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.