A 28-year-old man charged with a series of sex crimes pleaded guilty Friday to two rapes on which a Ventura County jury deadlocked in February, part of a plea agreement that calls for a 19-year prison ...

The alleged rape occurred in March 2020, when the female foster youth was 16 and living in a Simi Valley group home. Gaines was 23 at the time, according to jail records. Still in question is ...