http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/01/BAK91GK9AK.DTL&tsp=1A man has been convicted of charges that he beat and blinded a 78-year-old widow inside her Daly City home after she surprised him during a robbery attempt.
Jose Perez-Gonzalez, 31, an illegal immigrant who was living in South San Francisco, broke into the woman's home in the Serramonte neighborhood Jan. 12, 2008, by prying open a rear sliding-glass door. When the woman confronted him, Perez-Gonzalez beat her in the face with his metal pry bar, an attack that left her blind.
Police found the victim semiconscious and near death after they responded to a silent burglar alarm. She now lives in a rest home. Her name has not been released.
Perez-Gonzalez was a tenant in a South San Francisco apartment building that the victim's family owned. An acquaintance of Perez-Gonzalez telephoned the woman earlier in the day and posed as a package deliveryman to determine when she was going to be home, police said.
Perez-Gonzalez intended to burglarize the residence when no one was there, authorities said.
Police tracked him to his hometown of Guadalajara, where Mexican authorities arrested him in November 2008.
Judge Craig Parsons of San Mateo County Superior Court convicted him Tuesday of attempted robbery, residential burglary, mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse and possession of stolen property. Perez-Gonzalez is being held without bail pending his sentencing hearing Jan. 10.
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