ALLEGED BEN LOMOND RAPIST FACES ADDITIONAL CHARGES

The Ben Lomond Market manager charged with the rape of his former co-worker and ex-girlfriend is facing additional accusations of rape involving a girl who was as young as 16, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office reported today. The new charges allege that Michael Patrick McClish, 37, repeatedly raped a girl whom he was dating over a two-year period when she was 16 and 17 years old, according to the Sheriff's Office. McClish was reportedly an adult at the time, although the Sheriff's Office did not specify when the alleged assaults occurred. The recent allegations emerged during an investigation into charges that McClish, who is married with children, also raped and sodomized a former co-worker with whom he was having an affair in the latter half of 2005, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office.

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