Bail Raised to $2 Million as San Diego Man Pleads Not Guilty in Bay Terraces Child Abduction Case
Court filings cite a 2012 sexual-battery conviction alongside a suspected parole hold noted in jail records.
Overview
- Delaeno Moorman, 35, entered a not-guilty plea to charges of forcible lewd acts on a child and kidnapping for child molestation in San Diego Superior Court on Friday.
- Judge Kimberlee Lagotta increased Moorman’s bail from $100,000 to $2 million at his arraignment.
- Police say a 12-year-old girl walking home from school on Tuesday was coerced into a stranger’s vehicle in Bay Terraces.
- Detectives report the girl was driven around for hours, the suspect tried to touch her inappropriately, and she escaped by running to a nearby home.
- Investigators used GPS data and automated license-plate readers to locate the suspect’s car, found it unoccupied, and arrested Moorman the next morning.