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Rape - So You Think You Can Dance Star Charged with Rape

By Steven Rodriguez

Choreographer Alex Da Silva had better brush up on his fancy footwork, though that’s what seems to have gotten the So You Think You Can Dance tango king into trouble. Da Silva was arrested at his North Hollywood home yesterday on charges of rape and other sex crimes. On behalf of four of Da Silva’s female dance students, the Los Angeles District Attorney charged the dance master with four counts of forcible rape, two counts of assault with intent to commit rape, and two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object. Da Silva faces possible life in prison if convicted of all charges. The LA District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Division vigorously prosecutes rape and sex crimes, warns expert Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Stephen Rodriguez...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).