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   The man charged with raping two women and murdering one of them in brutal   
   attacks along the Venice Canals on the same day in April pleaded no contest to   
   the charges Friday and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.   
      
   Anthony Francisco Jones pleaded no contest to murder with special   
   circumstances, two counts of rape, one count of sexual penetration by use of   
   force, one count of mayhem, one count of torture and one count of sodomy by   
   use of force in connection with the    
   April 6 attacks.   
      
   After Jones pleaded no contest to those charges, Los Angeles County Superior   
   Court Judge Cathryn F. Brougham sentenced him to life in prison without the   
   possibility of parole, plus 107 years to life, plus eight years for the mayhem   
   offense.   
      
   Jones, during a court appearance, also admitted that he kidnapped the victims,   
   committed offenses against more than one of them and inflicted great bodily   
   injury on them. He also admitted that the murder occurred while he was engaged   
   in the commission of    
   rape and sodomy.   
      
   Sarah Alden, a 53-year-old mother of two, was left in a coma from her attack   
   and eventually succumbed to her injuries. She was declared brain-dead on May   
   20 and removed from life support four days later; her organs were donated   
   after she died.   
      
   The second woman, Mary Klein, was hospitalized with significant injuries,   
   including multiple fractures to her jaw, but survived.   
      
   Klein described her ordeal to The Times from her hospital bed in the immediate   
   aftermath of the attack. She had gone for a walk after work when she was   
   struck to the ground and brutally beaten, leaving her with at least eight   
   fractures to her jaw,    
   several teeth knocked loose, a large cut to the back of her head and severe   
   bruises covering her face and neck.   
      
   “Could this have been prevented?” Klein wondered in a statement that she   
   read at the sentencing. “This guy was basically parading up and down   
   Washington Boulevard at Venice Beach, L.A.’s popular tourist destination,   
   with a half-empty bottle of    
   liquor, intimidating women on the street. If he had been stopped before the   
   attack, imagine how different life would be today for me, for Sarah, for   
   Sarah’s sons and for all the people terrorized by this attack.”   
      
   Surveillance video from a nearby home in the 2700 block of Strongs Drive that   
   captured the assault — which prosecutors described in a document requesting   
   that Jones be held without bail — shows a man dragging Klein’s body to the   
   gate of a house.   
      
   The man is then seen in the video sexually assaulting Klein, who was   
   unconscious, for about seven minutes. After the assault, he stands, pulls his   
   pants up, kicks Klein and walks away. He then returns to Klein’s side and   
   kicks her in the head “with    
   full force” as she was sitting up. As she lay on the ground, he stood with   
   both feet on top of her head before finally leaving the scene.   
      
   It is The Times’ policy not to identify victims of sexual assault unless   
   they come forward publicly, but Klein, 55, agreed to share her story. Klein   
   still needs tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of orthodontic surgery and   
   friends have established    
   an online fundraising account.   
      
      
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