A man who sexually assaulted two female escorts in separate Mission Valley attacks and threatened to kill one of them with an ax was sentenced Friday to 40 years to life in state prison.
Brendan Mathis, 32, pleaded guilty last year to forcible rape and assault with intent to commit oral copulation, both during a burglary.
Mathis was arrested on Jan. 29, 2014, after attacking a woman in her Mission Valley apartment. He was also charged in a similar attack on Jan. 10, 2014, in which he threatened to kill the victim and raped her.
Police said both victims were paid escorts.
Deputy District Attorney Mary-Ellen Barrett said the defendant told police after his arrest that “something came over him” and that he targeted the women for their vulnerability.
In the first attack, Mathis zapped the woman with a Taser after she let him into her Mission Valley hotel room, bound her hands and feet, blindfolded her and said he had an ax and was going to kill her, the prosecutor said.
Barrett said Mathis sexually assaulted the victim, then told her to shower. The assault went on for four to five hours, according to the prosecutor.
In the second attack, Mathis also used a Taser on the victim, then got her into a back bedroom in her apartment and tied her hands behind her back, Barrett said.
Mathis was arrested when he walked out on the street.
—City News Service
