Professional clown charged with raping 12-year-old girl

(CBS/AP) SANTA ANA, Calif. - Jose Guadalupe Jimenez, a professional clown in Orange County, was charged Monday with four felony counts in the rape of a 12-year-old girl nine years ago.

Jimenez is charged with two counts of lewd acts upon a child, one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of forcible lewd act on a child. The 41-year-old Anaheim man, who is expected to be arraigned Monday, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

Orange County prosecutors say Jimenez was dressed as a clown when he grabbed a girl at a fast-food stand just before midnight in January 2002. He then drove to a school parking lot and raped the girl.

Investigators say a DNA sample after his child abuse arrest in an Anaheim case last year linked him to the rape.