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   Pictured: Ble Kore. Photo provided by the Aurora Police Department.   
      
   AURORA | It took an Arapahoe County jury just 90 minutes on Tuesday to declare   
   a 25-year-old Aurora man guilty of raping multiple girls near the combined   
   Overland High School and Prairie Middle School campus in September 2018.   
      
   Jurors convicted Ble Ghislain Kore of two sexual assault charges shortly   
   before 1 p.m. Dec. 10, concluding a five-day jury trial, according to court   
   documents. Kore had pleaded not guilty to the charges in March.   
      
   Investigators determined Kore, who is a native of the Ivory Coast, raped a   
   17-year-old girl after he picked her up in a car as she walking home from   
   school on Sept. 13, 2018, according to court documents.   
      
   Kore, who was driving a black sedan, pulled up beside the girl and told her   
   “he had someone watching her mom,” which prompted her to get into the   
   passenger’s seat of the car, according to an arrest affidavit. Kore then   
   drove to the guest parking    
   lot of the girl’s own apartment complex, climbed over the vehicle’s center   
   console and raped her in the passenger’s seat.   
      
   Jurors determined Kore also raped a second girl shortly after the first   
   assault. Police determined Kore picked up the second girl near the Overland   
   campus as she left guitar practice and shortly thereafter assaulted her in the   
   same car, according to the    
   affidavit.   
      
   Investigators linked Kore to the crime using expedited DNA testing conducted   
   by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Kore also owned a black Volkswagen   
   Pasat that matched the description of the car used in the attacks, police   
   determined.   
      
   Aurora police arrested Kore at about 10 a.m. Oct. 16 near the intersection of   
   Havana Street and East Alameda Avenue.   
      
   The victims, as well as multiple police officers and experts in sexual assault   
   and nursing, testified at trial.   
      
   Kore has an extensive criminal record dating back five years, according to CBI   
   records. In October 2013, he was sentenced to one year of probation for a   
   domestic violence incident in which he was charged with multiple counts of   
   assault. A slew of    
   additional traffic and assault charges filed against Kore in 2016 were   
   dismissed by the District Attorney’s office, records show.   
      
   A French interpreter accompanied Kore to nearly all of his court proceedings   
   over the past year even though he waived the interpreter at a status hearing   
   in November and a judge determined Kore was “able to understand (the)   
   proceeding,” according to    
   court notes.   
      
   Kore has been detained at the Arapahoe County jail on a $1 million bond since   
   he was arrested, according to county records. He lobbied for a reduction of   
   his bond multiple times in the past year, though the court ruled against all   
   such requests.   
      
   Judge Andrew Baum is scheduled to sentence Kore at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 27, 2020.   
      
   Kore is eligible to be sentenced to probation, according to Vikki Migoya,   
   spokeswoman for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.   
      
   https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/jury-convicts-aurora-serial-r   
   pist-for-2018-assaults-in-less-than-2-hours/   
      
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