Transient Sentenced in 2 Attempted Rapes

A transient was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for trying to rape two students near Chatsworth High School shortly after he was released from imprisonment for an earlier rape.

Thomas Lynn Wolff, 29, who pleaded guilty to two charges of assault with intent to rape, was sentenced by San Fernando Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen.

Wolff, who had been paroled in February, assaulted the teen-agers on May 20 and May 21, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Steven Ipsen.

“He grabbed one girl outside of Chatsworth High,” and threatened to harm her if she did not comply, Ipsen said. The girl managed to escape. The next day Wolff returned to the school, molested and threatened to kill another student.

“She started screaming and the high school tennis team came up and hit him with racquets . . . and then held him for police,” Ipsen said.

In 1986, Wolff was convicted of rape in concert and was sentenced to four years in state prison, Ipsen said. He was released from prison last year but was ordered back when he violated the terms of his parole.