A 26-year-old man previously convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and two teenage girls in Huntington Beach pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexual battery again in Santa Ana.
Michael Anthony Meer pleaded guilty to a felony count of false imprisonment and a misdemeanor count of sexual battery. Meer is scheduled to be sentenced July 30.
Meer admitted attacking a woman on Jan. 2, 2025, in Santa Ana.
Meer pleaded guilty June 22, 2020, to sexual penetration by a foreign object, assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem, all felonies, as well as misdemeanor counts of touching an intimate part of another person and child annoyance. He was sentenced to six years in prison with credit for 1,092 days behind bars.
Meer was convicted of attacking a 39-year-old woman in Huntington Beach Feb. 28, 2018, and the other victims on March 9, 2018.
The 39-year-old woman was walking to a fitness center about 6:25 p.m. when Meer rollerbladed behind her and slapped her on the buttocks, prosecutors said in court papers.
Meer then slapped a phone out of her hand before skating away, prosecutors said. Then, as she reached the parking lot, he rolled up behind her again, grabbed her left hip with one hand and molested her groin with the other hand, prosecutors said.
The victim said she saw him smell his fingers as he rollerbladed away, prosecutors said.
On March 9, 2018, Meer jabbed a knife into the tailbone of a 16-year-old girl at Edison High School, prosecutors said. The girl said she was walking toward the campus parking lot south of the tennis courts with two other friends when he rollerbladed up behind her and attacked her, prosecutors said.
The teen suffered a lacerated colon and had to be fitted with a colostomy bag, prosecutors said. She had to be re-admitted to a hospital later because she was unable to digest solid food, prosecutors said.
The girl was able to have the colostomy bag removed but wasn’t able to run for her track team anymore, prosecutors said.
Meer groped a 15-year-old girl at Edison High School earlier that same day, prosecutors said.
Thank you for reporting on this. It is very concerning that mynewsLA.com appears to be one of the only news outlets covering this offender’s history.
Given the number of years over which he allegedly committed multiple horrific assaults, it raises serious questions about how he was able to continue offending. One victim was reportedly a high school girl who suffered life-altering traumatic injuries after being attacked with a knife in her tailbone area. That assault occurred in 2018, yet he was still allegedly able to offend again in 2020 and 2025—at least based on the incidents that have been publicly reported.
It’s troubling that someone with such a serious and repeated pattern of violent behavior was able to remain a threat to others for so long.