California man who performed as clown 'El Tin Larin' gets 10 years for raping 12-year-old in 2002

Jose Guadalupe Jimenez, 43, was sentenced to ten years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl in 2002.
A sick sex predator who worked as a birthday clown around Los Angeles will spend 10 years behind bars for kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old girl while wearing his clown makeup and clown mask.

Jose Guadalupe Jimenez, 43, who entertained kids under the name "El Tin Larin," was busted in 2011 after investigators matched DNA taken from another crime to some from the girl's rape ten years ago.

The depraved bozo was dressed in his clown getup when he nabbed the girl from outside a fast-food joint around midnight on Jan. 19, 2002, prosecutors said.

He drove to a school parking lot, where he raped her, and then took her to a seedy motel, where the sex attack continued, prosecutors said.

The girl managed to escape when Jimenez left to talk to a motel clerk, local TV station KTLA reported.

Cops said the case went cold because the girl couldn't describe her attacker beyond saying he was a Hispanic man in a clown costume.

Jimenez, 43, was in clown makeup and a clown mask when he kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl in 2002, prosecutors said.

"The problem was the only description we had was 'a clown,'" Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said at the time.
The break in the case came when Jimenez was arrested on suspicion of abusing a relative's child in November 2010, AOL News reported.
Jimenez submitted a DNA sample, and investigators matched it with evidence from the 2002 rape.
A warrant was issued, and Jimenez was busted at a motel in Newport Beach in March 2011.
A handful of the sicko's performances as 'El Tin Larin' are still up on YouTube. In one, he performs with a ventriloquist puppet.

For nine years, Jimenez moonlighted as a pudgy Ronald McDonald lookalike at children's parties while working days in construction.
A handful of videos from his performances are still up on YouTube.
After his bust, cops found several clown masks, costumes, oversized shoes, balloons and puppets at his Anaheim home.
Jimenez pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd acts upon a child on Wednesday and will have to register as a sex offender.
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