Ex-Uber Driver Sentenced For Rape, Sexual Assault

EL CAJON, CA – A former Uber driver who raped a female passenger and sexually assaulted as many as 14 others, including teenagers who were unconscious from drugs or alcohol, was sentenced Wednesday to 80 years and four months in prison.

John David Sanchez, 53, pleaded guilty in August to 34 charges, including rape and sodomy of an unconscious person.

Sanchez was initially arrested about a month after he raped the Uber passenger on Feb. 26, 2016. He posted bail and was fired by Uber.

Investigators subsequently located other women and girls who had been assaulted by Sanchez in 2007, 2011 and 2013, but had not reported the attacks.

Sanchez committed sex acts on a 13-year-old girl and involved her in a sex act on a disabled woman at a medical facility in 2013, El Cajon police said.

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