RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KNX) — A Riverside woman who allegedly sexually abused her two stepchildren for years with her husband pleaded not guilty Friday to a series of felony charges.
Sabrina Lynn Hawkins, 30, was arrested earlier this month following an investigation by the Riverside Police Department’s Sexual Assault-Child Abuse Unit.
This was after detectives arrested Hawkins’ husband, 34-year-old Joshua Daniel Hawkins, in November in the same investigation, according to City News Service.
Sabrina Hawkins is charged with eight counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and six counts of forced intercourse with a minor. She also faces four counts each of lewd acts on a child and acting in connection with her husband to perpetrate a child sex offense.
Hawkins was being held Friday on $2 million bail at the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside while she waited to be arraigned before Riverside County Superior Court.
Joshua Hawkins is being held on the same bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta, according to CNS. He pleaded not guilty on Nov. 30 to 26 child sex abuse-related charges and is expected back in court on March 4.
Detectives received information in early November about suspected sexual assaults on two children, identified in court documents only as “K.H.” and “J.H.,” in the Orangecrest area of the city, RPD Officer Ryan Railsback told CNS.
Railsback said detectives discovered Joshua Hawkins had engaged in “ongoing sexual abuse of [his] teenage daughter.”
“During their investigation, detectives learned of additional sexual abuse taking place against the victim's male sibling, by their stepmother [Sabrina Hawkins],” Railsback said.
Court documents indicate that the alleged assaults began in 2014 and continued into the fall of 2021, according to CNS.
“The (defendants) have been involved in community and school activities in and around the neighborhood where they lived,” Railsback said, asking anyone who may have information relevant to the investigation to come forward.
Neither defendant has documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County, according to CNS. If convicted, both face potential life prison terms.
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