Oct 8, 2009 7:22 pm US/Pacific
Ore. Man Convicted Of Raping, Stalking O.C. Woman
SANTA ANA (CBS) ―
A 54-year-old Oregon man was convicted Thursday of raping and stalking an Orange County woman he initially met via online dating.
Tooraj Aghmiyouni Nakhei flew from Oregon to California in 2007 to meet the woman four years after they met online.
The woman said he invited her to dinner at the hotel he was staying in Costa Mesa and after sharing a meal, Nakhei told the woman he had flowers for her in his room.
There, she says he raped her as she cried and begged him to stop, according to Farrah Emami of the Orange County District Attorney's office.
Emami said the woman did not report the rape at the time of the crime because she was embarrassed.
The woman maintained that over the next year and a half, Nakhei sent her hundreds of notes and E mails to her, as well as her family. She said the notes went from apologetic to insulting to actual threats.
Emami said the victim finally reported the stalking in December 2007.
He was arrested in October 2008 for violating an order of protection to forbid him from contacting her. While he was in custody, Emami says, the woman came forward and reported the rape, as well.
Emami says the man violated another protection order in March when he went to her home and demanded she tell authorities she had not been raped.
He was taken into custody and held there awaiting trial. He was also given a $1 million bail.
Nakhei was found guilty of rape, forcible oral copulation, stalking and trying to dissuade a witness from reporting a crime, all felony offenses. He was also found guilty of disobeying a court order, a misdemeanor.
When he is sentenced in December, the DA's office said Nakhei faces up to 15 years and four months in prison.
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