69-year-old Anaheim man charged with raping 93-year-old woman with dementia

Phuong Hoang Khong, a 69-year-old caretaker has been charged with raping a bedridden 93-year-old woman who is nonverbal and suffers from dementia while he was supposed to be caring for her.

Khong, of Anaheim, has been charged with one felony count of rape by force, one felony count of sexual penetration by a foreign object by force, one felony count of forcible oral copulation, and one felony count of elder abuse.

He faces a maximum sentence of 75 years to life plus four years if convicted on all counts.

On the morning of Jan. 6, 2025, Khong, who serves as a caretaker for the woman three times a week, is accused of arriving for his scheduled caretaking shift and covering the woman’s eyes with a medical mask before removing the woman’s diaper. He is accused of tightening medical restraints around the woman’s wrists before sexually assaulting her in her medical bed. Khong had a prior association to the woman.

Khong turned himself into the Orange Police Department on Feb. 3, 2025, after the woman’s family threatened to turn him in to the police.

“He targeted the most vulnerable of victims, knowing that she was so helpless she couldn’t even cry out for help,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “This is another tragic example that sexual predators do not age out of their sadistic deviancies, and we must never stop fighting to protect the defenseless from the predators who wish to prey on them for their sick and twisted sexual gratification.”

Deputy District Attorney Elise Levy of the Sexual Assault Unit is prosecuting this case.

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