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The coroner has confirmed howChristy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzoladied four months after they went out to a party but never came home.
Cabrales-Arzola tested positive for cocaine and MDMA and other drugs which were undetermined.
The pair allegedly met a group of men during a party at an exclusive venue in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Giles was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, while Cabrales-Arzola was found unconscious; she later died on Nov. 24.
The Los Angeles Police Departmentannounced the arrestof David Pearce, 40, as well as Michael Ansbach, 47, and Brandt Osborn, 42, in December last year. Pearce was charged with manslaughter while Ansbach and Osborn were accused of being accessories to manslaughter.
Shortly after his arrest,Pearce was later also chargedwith sexually assaulting four women between 2010 and 2020, including two counts of forcible rape and one count each of rape of an unconscious or sleeping person and sexual penetration with a foreign object.
It is currently unclear if any of the men have engaged legal representation to comment on their behalf.
PEOPLE has reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles District Attorney for updates on the case but did not immediately hear back.
“I sighed a sigh of relief,” Giles' husband, Jan Cilliers,told PEOPLEin December when the three men were arrested. “But I also understand that this is just the beginning of the battle. There’s going to be a lot of stuff to get through in order to get these guys in prison.”
“I know that I have to be strong, and I’m going to do everything that I can to make sure that my wife gets the justice she deserves, even though no amount of justice is ever going to bring her back to life, and she’s still going to be gone,” he continued. “But hopefully, it stops these guys from doing anything else to any other woman.”
GoFundMe pages have been set up for bothGilesandCabrales-Arzola.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.
source: people.com
