Couple in sex case pleads not guilty...

Couple in sex case pleads not guilty

A couple who worked at Newport Beach-based Pacific Care insurance

company pleaded not guilty on Friday to molesting several young girls

and videotaping them engaged in sexual acts.

Orange County Sheriff’s deputies raided the Rancho Santa Margarita

home of 32-year-old David Shouthy Hwang and his new wife, Sheila

Marie Sikat, 24, last month and found more than 100 homemade

videotapes of Hwang molesting the girls, officials said.

Hwang has been with the Newport Beach company for about four

years, and Sikat for about three years. Both have been placed on

administrative leave since their arrest.

Hwang has been charged with 21 counts of child molestation, and

his wife with four counts of child molestation and one count of

recording minors engaged in sex acts.

Hwang is being held in Orange County jail without bail, and

Sikat’s bail has been set at $500,000. They are due back in court in

Laguna Niguel on Oct. 29.

-- Deepa Bharath