O.C. nursing assistant charged with sexual battery of 3 teens

An Orange County nursing assistant is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on sexual battery charges involving three female teenagers, authorities said.

Alfredo Fernandez Gonzalez, 45, who lives in Orange, is accused of hugging the victims, touching their bodies, kissing their necks and making comments about their bodies, the Orange County district attorney's office said.

The victims -- two of them 17 years old and the other 18 years old -- were students in a nursing course at Park West Care and Rehabilitation Center in Santa Ana, prosecutors said.

Gonzalez was a trainer in the program and allegedly touched the victims' buttocks under the guise of demonstrating nursing procedures, prosecutors said. The alleged battery took place between March 8 and May 4.

Authorities said there may be additional victims and asked anyone with information to call investigator Carl Waddell at (714) 834-7538 or Det. Mike Judson at (714) 245-8378.

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Photo: Alfredo Gonzalez. Credit: Orange County district attorney's office.