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Valencia Man To Start Trial On Child Annoyance Charge In July

A Santa Clarita man facing the possibility of life in prison on child annoyance charges is scheduled to start trial in July, officials said.


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Yale Yurman, 73, of Valencia, has been in custody since last July, after he was accused of filming children without their permission last summer.

A jury trial is expected to begin July 28 for Yurman, with a hearing for last-minute motions scheduled for July 25.

Related article: Valencia Man Still Behind Bars On Child Annoyance Charges

From an earlier story:

Yurman is facing child annoyance allegations at three different locations in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to Deputy Josh Dubin of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station.

Yale Yurman

The evidence against Yurman is presented to a judge who determined if there’s enough to make Yurman formally face charges in a jury trial, took place in September.

Yurman is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Sheriff’s Station detectives were alerted to Yurman’s activities by Target loss-prevention officers, who received a report from customers and contacted deputies with their information.

Deputies were told a man was following a young girl and videotaping her while she was walking around inside Target located on Magic Mountain Parkway in Valencia in June.

Through proactive work by Target’s loss prevention, detectives were able to identify the suspect, Dubin said.

On Wednesday, detectives served a search warrant in the 23700 block of Hickory Court in Valencia.

Residents of the Belcaro housing community have contacted KHTS over concerns with Yurman’s alleged behavior.

Yurman has several known aliases, according to the Megan’s Law website, which include Steve Simonian, Dale Orin Pettit and Joseph Abendana.

He has several convictions listed on the Megan’s Law site, including annoying/molesting a child under the age of 18, lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age by force or fear and oral copulation with a minor under 14 years of age by use of force or fear.

Evidence was recovered which showed the suspect had been following young girls and videotaping them on several occasions.

These locations were identified as Target, Walmart and the Real Life Church in Valencia.

Another location was the Santa Monica pier, according to a Sheriff’s Station news release.

California’s Megan’s Law provides the public with certain information on the whereabouts of sex offenders so that members of our local communities may protect themselves and their children.

The law is not intended to punish the registrant and specifically prohibits using the information to harass or commit any crime against a registrant.

The Megan’s Law website at www.meganslaw.ca.gov has information regarding sex registrants living in your neighborhood.


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Valencia Man To Start Trial On Child Annoyance Charge In July

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Perry Smith is a print and broadcast journalist who has won several awards for his focused, hyperlocal community coverage in several different regions of the country. In addition to five years of experience covering the Santa Clarita Valley, Smith, a San Fernando Valley native, has worked in newspapers and news websites in Los Angeles, the Northwest, the Central Valley and the South, before coming to KHTS in 2012. To contact Smith, email him at Perry@hometownstation.com.