NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A Peruvian man who is accused of killing three college students in Newark, N.J., appeared in court Monday on unrelated assault and child-rape charges.
Jose Lachira Carranza, 28, appeared before Superior Court Judge Thomas Vena in a Newark courtroom shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, the Newark Star-Ledger reported.
Carranza was in court on a 31-count indictment from July in which he was accused of sexually assaulting a young girl for 4 years, staring when the girl was 5.
The head of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Child Abuse Unit, Mark Ali, said he would give Carranza's lawyer a transcript of a videotaped interview with the alleged child victim before the next scheduled hearing on Sept. 24.
The accused was also charged with assaulting four men at a West Orange restaurant in 2006.
