Former Taxi Driver Sentenced for Attacks on Four Women

 A Hollywood man convicted of attacking four homeless women in 2008, including two who were sexually assaulted in a taxi he was driving, was sentenced last week to 42 years to life in state prison.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Mitchell denied the defense's motion for a new trial for Eric Lamont Clay, 42, who was convicted in August 2012 of five counts of forcible oral copulation and one count each of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and attempted forcible oral copulation.

The victims were in their 50s and 60s and each had gotten into the cab consensually in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles before being driven to isolated areas nearby where they were attacked inside the vehicle between July 2008 and November 2008, according to Deputy District Attorney Gloria Marin.

Clay was arrested in January 2009 by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division. He has remained jailed since then.   

-City News Service