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DA: Sex Assault Suspect Could Have More Victims

DENVER (CBS4)- Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has formally charged a man in two separate cases on sexual assault in which he targeted young, intoxicated women.

Randall Hoch has been charged with second-degree kidnapping and four counts of sexual assault.

Prosecutors believe that on March 16, Hoch, 35, befriended a 27-year-old woman who had become intoxicated and separated from her friends. He allegedly accompanied her home.
"She reported she woke up with home with a strange man sexually assaulting her," said Lynn Kimbrough with the Denver District Attorney's Office.

The investigation led to another victim from an incident in June 2013 in which Hoch allegedly took an intoxicated 24-year-old woman to his home without her permission and then sexually assaulted her.

According to court documents obtained by CBS4, the young woman in that case didn't believe she gave consent in the case but didn't pursue charges at the time.

"In Colorado, if you are too intoxicated to say yes than any sexual contact is a sexual assault," Kimbrough said.

When re-interviewing that victim in 2015, police asked why she decided to move forward now.
According to the suspects arrest paperwork she told them "He's not going to stop; probably going to keep doing it again, again and again. I just didn't want anybody else to experience that."

Hoch was arrested earlier this week and remains in custody in the Denver Detention Center.
Lynn Kimbrough with the Denver District attorney's office says investigators are not ruling out the possibility he may have had other encounters.

"I think we have to be realistic about the possibility it could have happened to someone else who hasn't come forward," she said.

Karen Morfitt Joined the CBS4 team as a reporter in 2013. She covers a variety of stories in and around metro Denver. Follow her on Twitter @karenmorfitt or email her tips.

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