HPD, Harris County DA seeking more victims of NASA engineer accused of being ‘serial sex predator’
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Investigators say there could be more victims of a former aerospace engineer accused of multiple sexual assaults.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg and Houston Police Department officials talked about the case during a Wednesday press conference, calling 37-year-old Eric Sim a “suspected serial sex predator.”
Sim, a NASA engineer, is accused of sexually assaulting six women. He would allegedly prey on women he met on dating apps. Court documents say one woman thinks she was drugged.
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Four more women are accusing a NASA engineer of sexually assaulting them on dates, according to records.
The engineer was arrested at NASA last month.
NASA won’t confirm or deny if Sim still has a job there, but ABC13 learned he’s been on 24/7 house arrest.
However, Sim’s hired attorney, Neal Davis, claims he’s innocent.
“I’m not fazed at all by the number of complainants, whether it’s one, six, or 10,” Davis said after Sims bonded out last week. “The question is, ‘Do these complainants know each other? How do they know each other? How did they come forward? Why did they wait? What are their motives?’ All those things we are exploring.”
Authorities are now hoping to identify more victims.
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Both women told authorities they met the NASA engineer on a dating app and had been on a few dates with him prior to the alleged assaults. He also starred in a video remake of the popular dance “Gangham Style” posted to NASA’s Johnson Space Center that went viral in 2013.
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Both women told authorities they met the NASA engineer on a dating app and had been on a few dates with him prior to the alleged assaults. He also starred in a video remake of the popular dance “Gangham Style” posted to NASA’s Johnson Space Center that went viral in 2013.
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