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California judge grants continuance in Rodriguez case

The attorney for Cecilio Rodriguez was granted another request to postpone a court date to set a preliminary hearing for the Hawaiian entertainer charged with committing lewd and lascivious acts against two minor girls 15 years ago.

Rodriguez, 66, was supposed to appear in Compton Municipal Court Wednesday to enter a plea and set a date for his arraignment. But Rodriguez’s attorney requested a continuance until Dec. 19, which the judge granted, the Los Angeles prosecutor’s office said.

Rodriguez, of the group Cecilio & Kapono, was arrested Sept. 27. He had just finished a concert tour in Redondo Beach.

He was freed on $200,000 bail on Oct. 1.

Los Angeles prosectors maintain that the entertainer allegedly committed sex crimes against two sisters who were both under age 14. The two-count felony complaint against Rodriguez said one sex crime occurred between Nov. 6, 1997, and Nov. 5, 1999. The second occurred with another girl between May 6, 1996, and May 5, 1998.

The allegations of sexual abuse were not revealed until earlier this year when the father of one of the women asked her to deliver a package to the Rodriguez’s home in Hawaii. The victim then told her father of the abuse by Rodriguez, officials said.

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