Criminal,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 5, 2020
Violent child molester gets $4.5M after being held 17 years without proceeding
The LA County Board of Supervisors approved without comment the payout to George Vasquez, who was detained for the greater part of the last two decades waiting to see if he could be kept committed as a sexually violent predator after he had served his prison sentence.




The county Board of Supervisors approved without comment the payout to George Vasquez, who was detained for the greater part of the last two decades waiting to see if he could be kept committed as a sexually violent predator after he had served his prison sentence.
In 1995, Vasquez was sentenced to 12 years in state prison on four counts of committing lewd or lascivious acts on children from his south Los Angeles neighborhood. In ...
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