SAN MATEO COUNTY — A San Mateo County man convicted of raping and sexually assaulting multiple underaged girls was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said.
Kaylan Freeman, 32 of El Granada, was sentenced months after his August conviction on 20 felony counts, including rape, kidnapping to commit child molestation, forcible child molestation, rape by use of drugs and forcible oral copulation of a child, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said Freeman showed no remorse at Friday’s sentencing hearing before Judge Amarra A. Lee.
Freeman “was a violent predator who sexually assaulted five teenage victims, forever changing their lives,” Wagstaffe told the Bay Area News Group on Tuesday. “Freeman showed no remorse and was actually smirking when the victims spoke to the court at sentencing. We wholeheartedly agree with Judge Lee that this evil man should never walk the streets of our community again and support her sentencing him to state prison for life without the possibility of parole.”
The crimes happened between May 2012 and June 2014, when sexual assaults of five different victims were reported in San Mateo County. The county’s sheriff’s office said in a 2021 statement that the crimes had been investigated since 2012.
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The investigation went without an identified suspect until January 2021, when the then-30-year-old Freeman was identified by a witness. He was subsequently arrested at his home and remained in custody since.
According to prosecutors, Freeman knew each of the five victims, who were between the ages of 13 and 18 at the time of the crimes. Each of them were assaulted with “force and threat,” and on at least one occasion, Freeman used drugs to aid his assault, prosecutors said.
In addition to the lifelong prison sentence, he was ordered to pay restitution to the victims. Freeman will pay $28,000 to one victim, while the amounts going to the others were yet to be determined.
