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Man accused of sexual battery, other victims sought

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LANCASTER – A 71-year-old man is accused of sexually battering a woman in Lancaster and authorities are asking any additional victims to come forward.

The suspect, Charles “Chuck” Mosman, allegedly sexually battered a woman in May of 2018, according to a news release from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.

“Detectives are seeking potential additional victims in and around the Lancaster area, with the incidents occurring throughout 2018. Detectives also believe the suspect may be dissuading victims from coming forward to make a report,” the news release states.

Specific details on the accusations against Mosman were not immediately released.

If you or anyone you know is a victim of Mosman, contact Detective Clark at Lancaster Sheriff’s Station at 661-948-8466.

“While this may be an uncomfortable, scary and potentially embarrassing crime to report, we are here to help. Please contact authorities,” the news release states.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station at 661-948-8466. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).

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31 comments for "Man accused of sexual battery, other victims sought"

  1. The prosecutor is facing a challenging situation here and all it takes is one out of 12 to reach a hung jury. It’s risky for the prosecution and they are searching for at least one additional accuser tobacco up the case. My prediction? Reduction to misdemeanor battery, 30 days on the trash pick-up along the 14 and a $500 fine. See if I’m right

    Meanwhile let’s splash his picture all over the place and damage him as much as we can- right?

  2. Just My Opinion !

    My family and I have know this man and his family for years,my personal believe he would never do anything against someones will. This man greets everyone with a hug and or hand shake. As someone stated he’s at BARS? Will the female probably was at the bar and was letting him to pay for he drinks all night, and doesn’t have a clear mind on what might of really happened, she probably sobered up the next day and had regrets and had to answer to her MAN, so she point the finger and filed the claim to cover her own MISTAKE. If something does come of this and She is correct I am SORRY ! But if not found to be true she should be charged with something this will ruin his business and life. .

  3. None of us know whether this man is innocent or guilty. He is innocent until proven guilty, but unfortunately if he is innocent, he will be labeled by the court of public opinion. That being said, I can’t believe that I have to even say that sexual assault is sexual assault. It is not an issue for either Democratic or Republican parties to solve on a partisan basis, or to use as a means to further a political agenda. It is the baseline of human decency to not assault someone. This is not a game! Stop using women to further your political agenda. Because of self-centered mind-sets, I can’t see that happening.

  4. Lotta discussion on this issue on theavtimes facebook page as well. Some people claim to know him and say he is innocent. His name does not appear in the inmate information page so it does not look like he was arrested. Sexual battery is not the same as sexual assault and it could be that he slapped a girl on the butt or something like that. Its a hot-button issue right now and we tend to give accusers the benefit of the doubt instead of the accused even though he has not been convicted of anything.

    I think it wont be long before everyone needs a body-cam, not just cops. Seems all it takes is one person to accuse you of something and you get your own wanted poster that makes you look like the town pervert.

  5. No one that comments on here understands that predatory behavior has nothing to do with politics or race. I am positive that the person that is being sexually assaulted isn’t wondering if that predator is a conservative or a liberal.

  6. AV Sure loves its WHITE sex offenders and hates its poor minorities.

    In the AV being poor is a greater crime than Rape.

    Keep It classy guys.

  7. The AV Loves its White Pedophiles, but hates anyone who receives public assistance, because that is a far worse sentence.

    Wonder what the reaction to this article would be if he weren’t white?

  8. Now every man in Palmdale and Lancaster will be falsely accused including law enforcement and Mayor’s and city council men.

    • Too late, already been done. The conservatives have broken out the “c’mon, what boy in high school hasn’t done this?” defense for Bret Kavanaugh. Apparently, according to conservatives, we all attempt a rape now and then.

        • LOL…no, actually I routinely explore the right wing echo chamber to see what sort of idiocy they are hatching. The “aw, all the red blooded boys do this” defense is prominently featured on Breitbarf.

          • Sexual assault has nothing to do with politics, Tim. It is not a liberal or conservative matter, Tim. Yes, there are men in politics, churches, temples, construction, atheists, Christians, poor, rich, and on and on that predators can be lurking. Oh yes, and teachers, and veterans, etc.

          • Alexis, maybe you should actually read before you fly off the handle and look stupid.

            The topic being discussed here is the REACTION that followers of the different political parties have to sexual assault. If you have something intelligent to say on that subject, please proceed.

          • This article has NOTHING to do with politics. Followers of different political parties making this article about politics is not intelligent. Don’t you understand that?

          • Context, Alexis, context. This guy, and whatever he has done or hasn’t done, and whoever it is that is accusing him of whatever he is accused of, don’t exist inside some magic isolation bubble. They exist in the same world that you and I exist in; the same world that a serial philandering self admitted molester of women got elected president in.

            The dividing line in that context cuts right across this case. On one side of the line are people who miss the “good old days” when a woman making an accusation like this was unheard of, because such an event even if it was in no way her fault would damage her ‘reputation’ more than it damaged the man who did it to her. Like it or not in your little rage bubble of “both parties are bad” those people are generally the GOP. The other side of the line doesn’t fantasize about a “greatness” that was really just a hiding of the problems in shadows so that the privileged weren’t inconvenienced by the consequences of their own actions.

            You may want to swim in your rage and lash out in every direction rather than take a side, and I’ll be fine taking the brunt of it since for whatever reason you have fixated on me…but I’m willing to take a side.

      • Blaming flippant sexual assault remarks on conservatives really shows how much in the dark you are, Tim. Read my other comment, and do some homework.

  9. If he does then the motivation for the false claims of assult is money. Now every man I Palmdale and Lancaster will be falsely accused, including law enforcement and Mayors and city council men.

  10. It’s more liberal lies against a conservative. Now every man in Palmdale and Lancaster will be falsely accused.

    • Sounds like you’re ready to go out and grab some pssy Dave. Just like your hero – Trump.

  11. White AV resident, it’s a Me-Too Lie, Minority AV resident, send him to the electric chair, he’s guilty! The definition of red-blooded sure supports these allegations, LOL!

  13. THIS SICKENING MAN CHUCK HAS TRUMP PENCE SIGNS IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE THE DUDE WAS A ROY MOORE CHILD MOLESTER SUPORTER ALSO, PEDOPHILE ENABLER.

    • But those are not his worst offences… He has no idea how to turn off CAPSLOCK.. and for that he will burn in hell….

  14. This is [removed] !!! This man is amazing and sweet and would never do something like that to a woman!! I have known this man for years, I was a bartender at a bar he frequents. He has always been respectful and caring!!!

  15. … this “me-too thing has gone off the rails. Sexual McCarthyism gone berserk, every red blooded American male is now an opportune target. Any guy, at any point in his life, could be found guilty of “sexual battery.”

    • Yeah, that’s what all the wannabe rapists say.

      It’s been an established statistic for over a decade that one in three women in the USA experiences some sort of sexual abuse in their lifetime, and it really isn’t getting better. High schools, Jr Highs, even elementary schools…at parties, in their own homes, girls really have no safe places. For women there’s dates, workplaces, and again in their homes. They have no safe places either.

      That’s been examined, analyzed, discussed, and all sorts of hand wringing about how to correct that going forward has been done. What was never done, until recently, is the asking of the question “who is doing all this?” And it isn’t just a tiny sliver of the male population running around committing all the abuses. You are right, just about everyone who calls themselves a “red blooded American male” has participated, at some point.

    • Speak for yourself and the men in YOUR life.

      I Know I sure as hell could NEVER be found guilty of sexual assault. Never once even thought of doing anything against the wishes/will of any female.

      The Misogyny of the vocal Right is STRONG.