OAKLAND — A local resident is set to go to trial nearly three years after he was charged with molesting two 12-year-old girls and blackmailing them with videos of the alleged sexual assaults, court records show.
Rosbin Diaz-Hernandez, 25, is facing 15 felony charges accusing him of molesting two 12-year-old girls on numerous occasions. Police say both girls came to investigators independently, but told similar stories. They allege Diaz-Hernandez had propositioned them to be his “girlfriend,” raped them at their first meet-up, then threatened to publicized video of the sexual assault to coerce them into meeting with him again.
“He forced me the first time. The second time, I did it because I wanted him to delete the video,” one of the girls testified at Diaz-Hernandez’s 2023 preliminary hearing.
Diaz-Hernandez is in Santa Rita Jail in lieu of $1.1 million bail. His trial date has been set for Jan. 25, with a readiness conference nine days earlier, records show.
Diaz-Hernandez has pleaded not guilty.
Authorities say that one of the girls began receiving text messages from Diaz-Hernandez without ever having given him her number, but that he claimed he’d gotten it from her friends during a recent social event. She said the first sexual assault occurred at San Antonio Park in Oakland.
The second girl said that Diaz-Hernandez talked her into getting into his car during their first encounter. She said she didn’t want to have sex with him but that he was stronger and she could “not escape.” Afterward, he told her he would upload videos of the incident onto Instagram and Facebook, and personally send it to her family members if she didn’t meet with him again, authorities said.