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by BakersfieldNow staffThursday, April 27th 2017FILE -- Jonathan Padilla is seen in surveillance video from the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Lebec, Calif., on the night when a woman was raped by him at the hotel. (Still image from video provided by law firm Callahan & Blaine)BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) - A Kern County jury has awarded $3.5 million to a woman who was raped in her hotel room.The lawsuit was filed against Holiday Inn...

BAKERSFIELD, CA - After a two-week trial, a jury returned a unanimous verdict against Holiday Inn in a case where the hotel receptionist gave a key to a sexual predator who then let himself into a hotel room and molested a 29-year-old woman. According to Callahan & Blaine who represented the victim, the perpetrator, who was noticeably intoxicated from drugs and alcohol, propositioned the receptionist for sex in exchange for $100 before asking for a...

An Anaheim children's dental clinic twice closed due to multiple bacterial infections will reopen Monday. The Children's Dental Group at 2156 E. Lincoln Blvd. was shut down in mid-September and then again in mid-December when tests showed bacteria was still in the office's water system, even though it recently had been replaced. Dozens of youngsters have been affected by the bacterial outbreak. Of the 68 reports to date, 22 cases have been confirmed and 46...

Woman sues local Holiday Inn after she was sexually assaulted in hotel By: Olivia LaVoice LEBEC, CALIF - A woman claims she was sexually assaulted in her hotel room because a hotel employee gave her room key to a stranger. Now she's suing the Holiday Inn Express in Lebec, where the assault took place. It was April 2014 when a woman came to spend the weekend at the Holiday Inn to visit her boyfriend, who...

FRAZIER PARK, Calif. - A southern California woman is suing a Kern County hotel after she says a hotel employee gave a stranger her room key, leading to a sexual assault. According to court documents, the assault happened in April of 2014. A woman went to the Holiday Inn Express in Frazier Park to see her boyfriend for the weekend. The lawsuit claims that the Holiday Inn employee gave the victim's room key to Jonathan...