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Man With 'Foot Fetish' Sentenced

Tahsin Hyder |
October 1, 2014 | 10:42 p.m. PDT

Senior Staff Reporter

Northridge Skateland in the San Fernando Valley (Tahsin Hyder/Neon Tommy)
Northridge Skateland in the San Fernando Valley (Tahsin Hyder/Neon Tommy)
Calling him a “monster” who’s “getting off easy,” a victim’s father shook his head as a San Fernando Superior Court judge sentenced a convicted child molester to one day in county jail and three years probation.

Julian Christopher Flores, 19, must also undergo one year of sex offender counseling.

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That same father stared at Flores and said, “this is a permanent tattoo that you have to live with for the rest of your life, like the innocence you took away from so many children.”

One mother said her two children are “overly cautious befriending others in their age group” after being molested by Flores, according to a letter read aloud in court by District Attorney Elena Abramson. 

Flores pleaded no contest to three counts of misdemeanor child molestation in August.  All of the offenses consisted of touching the feet of young boys Flores encountered at Northridge Skateland, where he worked, in 2013.

One boy told his grandmother about an encounter with Flores in a maintenance room in December. Flores then voluntarily came into the LAPD’s Devonshire station the next day. 

Flores admitted to police that had they not been interrupted, he would have had the victim “rub his feet on his hands and that he was going to play with [victim’s] feet,” according to a search warrant affidavit. Flores also admitted to being sexually aroused by his foot fetish.

He told LAPD he engaged in this type of behavior with about 200 boys at Skateland, according to court records. 

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The LAPD took Flores’ cell phone and laptop into custody for forensic examination after interviewing him. They found videos of Flores, stored on these devices, instructing boys to remove their socks, according to a search warrant affidavit. 

Flores initially pled not guilty to two felony charges, including one count of false imprisonment and one count of a lewd act on a child. If convicted of these charges, Flores would have faced up to eight years and four months in prison.

A plea agreement reduced those charges to three misdemeanor counts of child molestation. 

Flores must also register as a sex offender as part of his sentence, in addition to obeying restraining orders that require him to stay 100 yards away from his victims as well as schools, parks and any area where children congregate.

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