Alleged child rapist arraigned after return to US
A former Revere resident pleaded not guilty to four counts of child rape in Suffolk Superior Court Monday, 10 years after he allegedly confessed to having sex with an 11-year-old girl and
returned to his native Guatemala.
Rony Vasquez was arrested on June 16, 2006, and arraigned in Chelsea District court on September 26 of that year. But he fled to Guatemala before his October arraignment.
More than 10 years later, he returned to the United States on a visa, where he was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on July 12.
A clerk magistrate ordered that Rony Vasquez be held on $100,000 cash bail.
According to the 2006 complaint, officers responded to a park in Revere for the report of a suspicious person and found Vasquez in the car with an 11-year-old girl.
Both parties were surprised by the officer’s presence, according to the complaint and the girl allegedly told officers they were, “just hanging out,” and that she was 17 years old, but declined to give a date of birth.
When asked why his fly was down, Vasquez told officers he had urinated in the tennis courts. Officers noted that the area was dry, but that there was a Trojan condom wrapper on the ground.
When officers asked if the wrapper was his, Vasquez responded, “Ya, but we just started to have sex,” according to the complaint. Vasquez was then arrested. When officers began to look for the condom, Vasquez allegedly told them the condom was still on his penis.
At the police station Vasquez allegedly told officers that they were in a relationship, that he was “concerned when he realized she was eleven, but that they loved each other and she was willing.” He added that they regularly have intercourse in his car near area parks.
The girl also told officers that the two were in love, according to the complaint.
In court Monday, Vasquez, a short man with a close cropped hair cut, furrowed his brow as Maryrose Anthers, an ADA with child protection, read the details of the case.
Anthers said that in addition to his taped confession, prosecutors may also be able to obtain DNA evidence, and added that now that the girl Vasquez was found in the car with is 21 years-old, “she may be more interested in pursuing this case.”
Vasquez’s attorney, Patrick H. Millina questioned the strength of the prosecution’s evidence and declined to comment outside the courtroom.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Vasquez was deported to Guatemala by federal authorities in 2006.
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