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    Uber driver in US illegally charged with 4 rapes

    Sanctuary State is working well for California citizens

    A Mexican man living in the US illegally used his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated young women and was charged Monday with raping, assaulting and robbing four victims, California prosecutors said. Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez drove women to their homes, assaulted them and stole property, including cellphones, computers and jewelry, officials said. He collected his fare payments through the smartphone app Venmo to disguise his identity and his Uber records.
    DNA evidence helped lead detectives to Alarcon-Nunez, who was arrested at his Santa Maria home last week, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said at a news conference.
    The alleged crimes occurred over four weeks starting in mid-December in San Luis Obispo, a city of about 45,000 that is home to California Polytechnic State University. Alarcon-Nunez’s victims are between 19 and 22, and three were drunk at the time of the crimes, Dow said.
    Alarcon-Nunez, 39, faces 10 criminal charges, including rape of an intoxicated victim and first-degree burglary. He pleaded not guilty to all charges at his arraignment and remained held in the San Luis Obispo County Jail with bail set at $1.47 million. His next court date was set for Jan. 29.
    Detectives are looking for potential witnesses and trying to determine if there are additional victims in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties northwest of Los Angeles, where Alarcon-Nunez had been driving for Uber since September, Dow said.
    Alarcon-Nunez has also gone by the name “Bruno Diaz” and his Venmo username was “Brush Bat,” prosecutors said.
    Officials said Alarcon-Nunez was not always driving for Uber when he picked up women. Sometimes, drivers in cars parked outside bars or restaurants “jump in front of the actual Uber driver and they will take someone unsuspecting to their home. And that’s a way of putting someone at risk, and in this case that’s exactly what’s alleged to have happened,” Dow said.
    He said the alleged crimes show that the company should improve its driver- screening process, Dow said. Dow urged Uber users to make sure they are getting in the car of the correct driver by verifying the license plate and other information provided to clients.
    “What police have reported is absolutely horrifying, and something no person should ever have to experience. We have been working with law enforcement to provide them with information for their investigation, and the driver has been permanently removed from the app,” Uber spokesman Andrew Hasbun said in a statement Monday.

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    That is messed up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Sanctuary State is working well for California citizens

    A Mexican man living in the US illegally used his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated young women and was charged Monday with raping, assaulting and robbing four victims, California prosecutors said. Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez drove women to their homes, assaulted them and stole property, including cellphones, computers and jewelry, officials said. He collected his fare payments through the smartphone app Venmo to disguise his identity and his Uber records.
    DNA evidence helped lead detectives to Alarcon-Nunez, who was arrested at his Santa Maria home last week, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said at a news conference.
    The alleged crimes occurred over four weeks starting in mid-December in San Luis Obispo, a city of about 45,000 that is home to California Polytechnic State University. Alarcon-Nunez’s victims are between 19 and 22, and three were drunk at the time of the crimes, Dow said.
    Alarcon-Nunez, 39, faces 10 criminal charges, including rape of an intoxicated victim and first-degree burglary. He pleaded not guilty to all charges at his arraignment and remained held in the San Luis Obispo County Jail with bail set at $1.47 million. His next court date was set for Jan. 29.
    Detectives are looking for potential witnesses and trying to determine if there are additional victims in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties northwest of Los Angeles, where Alarcon-Nunez had been driving for Uber since September, Dow said.
    Alarcon-Nunez has also gone by the name “Bruno Diaz” and his Venmo username was “Brush Bat,” prosecutors said.
    Officials said Alarcon-Nunez was not always driving for Uber when he picked up women. Sometimes, drivers in cars parked outside bars or restaurants “jump in front of the actual Uber driver and they will take someone unsuspecting to their home. And that’s a way of putting someone at risk, and in this case that’s exactly what’s alleged to have happened,” Dow said.
    He said the alleged crimes show that the company should improve its driver- screening process, Dow said. Dow urged Uber users to make sure they are getting in the car of the correct driver by verifying the license plate and other information provided to clients.
    “What police have reported is absolutely horrifying, and something no person should ever have to experience. We have been working with law enforcement to provide them with information for their investigation, and the driver has been permanently removed from the app,” Uber spokesman Andrew Hasbun said in a statement Monday.

    https://nypost.com/2018/01/23/uber-d...-with-4-rapes/
    So much for Uber's vetting of their drivers. Eventually, they will have to go down the judicial road for vicarious liability. The app loophole won't protect them forever, particularly since they have publically stated that they vet the drivers (in order to build public confidence). That will prove to be their Achilles heel in engaging the employee/employer relationship or in legal terms, the master/servant relationship. You can hardly do a proper background check on an illegal, so their due diligence will be found wanting and the civil damages for 4 rapes could be rather high, including exemplary damages for gross negligence.
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    Hurry up, tPF left!!! Get on this thread and tell us all the same old lies about how much more lawful illegals are than Americans...

    And then, be sure to tell ALL OF YOUR ELECTED and WANNABE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO DO THE SAME...PLEEEEEEEEASE...
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    It is possible that Uber will get a pass here- rape is a crime and obviously outside of his role as driver.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    So much for Uber's vetting of their drivers. Eventually, they will have to go down the judicial road for vicarious liability. The app loophole won't protect them forever, particularly since they have publically stated that they vet the drivers (in order to build public confidence). That will prove to be their Achilles heel in engaging the employee/employer relationship or in legal terms, the master/servant relationship. You can hardly do a proper background check on an illegal, so their due diligence will be found wanting and the civil damages for 4 rapes could be rather high, including exemplary damages for gross negligence.
    I suppose we'll just ignore the fact that the vast majority of Uber drivers aren't raping anyone. I guess we'll also have to ignore the fact that Uber has provided about 2 billion rides since it started, which clearly indicates that customers are generally satisfied with the level of service they provide. Instead, we'll just focus on a few freak outliers so that we can justify the endless attempts to bring Uber under a heavier regulatory and tax burden.
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    Ride-Sharing has always been a creepy concept to me. Even in college when people were doing it on holidays, it seemed weird idea to be in a car with a complete stranger for hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Sanctuary State is working well for California citizens

    A Mexican man living in the US illegally used his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated young women and was charged Monday with raping, assaulting and robbing four victims, California prosecutors said. Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez drove women to their homes, assaulted them and stole property, including cellphones, computers and jewelry, officials said. He collected his fare payments through the smartphone app Venmo to disguise his identity and his Uber records.
    DNA evidence helped lead detectives to Alarcon-Nunez, who was arrested at his Santa Maria home last week, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said at a news conference.
    The alleged crimes occurred over four weeks starting in mid-December in San Luis Obispo, a city of about 45,000 that is home to California Polytechnic State University. Alarcon-Nunez’s victims are between 19 and 22, and three were drunk at the time of the crimes, Dow said.
    Alarcon-Nunez, 39, faces 10 criminal charges, including rape of an intoxicated victim and first-degree burglary. He pleaded not guilty to all charges at his arraignment and remained held in the San Luis Obispo County Jail with bail set at $1.47 million. His next court date was set for Jan. 29.
    Detectives are looking for potential witnesses and trying to determine if there are additional victims in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties northwest of Los Angeles, where Alarcon-Nunez had been driving for Uber since September, Dow said.
    Alarcon-Nunez has also gone by the name “Bruno Diaz” and his Venmo username was “Brush Bat,” prosecutors said.
    Officials said Alarcon-Nunez was not always driving for Uber when he picked up women. Sometimes, drivers in cars parked outside bars or restaurants “jump in front of the actual Uber driver and they will take someone unsuspecting to their home. And that’s a way of putting someone at risk, and in this case that’s exactly what’s alleged to have happened,” Dow said.
    He said the alleged crimes show that the company should improve its driver- screening process, Dow said. Dow urged Uber users to make sure they are getting in the car of the correct driver by verifying the license plate and other information provided to clients.
    “What police have reported is absolutely horrifying, and something no person should ever have to experience. We have been working with law enforcement to provide them with information for their investigation, and the driver has been permanently removed from the app,” Uber spokesman Andrew Hasbun said in a statement Monday.

    https://nypost.com/2018/01/23/uber-d...-with-4-rapes/
    I say throw the book at him; make him do hard time, then when released, escort him to the border.
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    I say, shoot him and, throw the body across the border, as a message to others who are thinking of sneaking in..... nothing else seems to work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    It is possible that Uber will get a pass here- rape is a crime and obviously outside of his role as driver.
    Given that he's an illegal, Uber would have no idea whether he has a criminal history outside of the US. For instance, if it is shown that he has a history of sexual assault in Mexico, that would trigger vicarious liability based on the fact that they are responsible for putting customers in a vehicle with a sociopathic driver whose history they failed to discover and he then used his role as a driver to target these women. The Uber driver is an agent of Uber. It's legally the same as if you send out equipment repair people to businesses and while they are there, they commit acts of theft or sexually assault employees. The employer of the repair person would be vicariously liable under respondeat superior because they put that individual into someone's premises creating a nexus between their employment and the criminal acts and the employee was in the course of his employment when the criminal act occurred. Of course, the employee would remain jointly liable but may not be able to satisfy a judgment.

    What would be different would be if say, a teacher, was assaulting students outside of the school premises and not during a school-sponsored activity. Although his role as a teacher gave him knowledge of certain students, he was not in the course of his employment while committing the assaults, thus respondeat superior would not apply.

    Most, if not all prior cases have dealt with alleged assaults. In the case of these four rapes, there has been a criminal conviction, so the rapes are not simply being alleged. If these women press a civil suit, it may well become defining case law.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgol.../#5657aae11cda

    There is current class action pending against Uber seeking certification re sexual assault by Uber drivers: https://www.recode.net/2017/11/14/16...kground-checks
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