CA - Body of missing Oscar Hernandez,13, found in Southern California [Oxnard], 3 April 2025 - Soccer coach charged

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Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 43, is now charged with eight counts of sodomy with a minor under the age of 16 and one count of oral copulation with a minor, according to Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Paul Thompson.

Garcia-Aquino pleaded not guilty to the new charges. Representatives for the Los Angeles County public defender’s office, which is representing the soccer coach, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The alleged abuse occurred between September 2022 and July 2023, Thompson said during a brief hearing in a downtown L.A. courtroom. Thompson told the court that prosecutors had uncovered “additional evidence” of abuse by Garcia-Aquino, but declined to offer details. The victim was also a player that Garcia-Aquino had coached, Thompson said.

Garcia-Aquino, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, was charged last year with killing 13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez during the commission of a lewd act at his Lancaster home in March. The boy, known as Omar, played for the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Club in the Sylmar area that Garcia-Aquino coached.

Prosecutors add charges against L.A. soccer coach accused of raping and killing teen

Soccer coach Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino was charged with sexually abusing and killing a teen last year. Prosecutors on Tuesday filed an additional nine counts of sexual abuse against him involving another player he previously coached.

www.latimes.com