SoCal cop was among Hollywood producer's rape victims. She died days before his sentencing

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It’s unknown if self-proclaimed “entertainment professional” David Pearce knew the fate of the multiple women he was prosecuted for allegedly drugging and raping over a 14-year period.

What is certain, however, is that one of those women — who transformed her sexual assault trauma into a service career — wasn’t there to witness his sentencing.

Pearce was handed a 146-year prison sentence Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court after being convicted of first-degree murder for the overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, as well as the rape of seven other women from 2007 to 2021.

Among Pearce’s victims was La Mesa Police Officer