Pareja latina que tuvo sexo en playa de Florida podría pagar 15 años de
cárcel
Una pareja hispana podría enfrentar una condena de 15 años de prisión tras
ser encontrada culpable de tener relaciones sexuales en una playa de Bradenton
Beach, Florida.
Después de sólo 15 minutos de deliberación un jurado del condado de
Manatee, encontró el lunes culpables a José Caballero de 40 años y a Elissa
Álvarez de 20 años, de conducta lasciva por su acción el pasado 20 de julio de
2014.
Durante el juicio se mostró un video donde los acusados realizaban un acto
sexual a plena luz del día y fueron observados por una menor de tres años y por
varios bañistas.
Tanto Caballero como Alvarez deberán inscribirse como agresores sexuales.
Una fecha para la sentencia no ha sido aún anunciada pero Anthony
Dafonseca, Asistente de la Fiscalía Estatal, dio a conocer que se buscará una
sentencia más severa para Caballero, que para Alvarez, ya que ésta no tiene
antecendentes penales y Caballero estuvo preso durante ocho años por tráfico de
cocaína.
Una mujer mayor que se encontraba con sus nietos pequeños los filmó con su
celular para después mostrar el video a las autoridades y entregarlo a los
medios de comunicación locales, según The Huffington Post.
La pareja estuvo en su faena por 25 minutos, después entraron al mar y
cuando salieron durmieron por algunas horas, según los informes. “Pensamos que
estaban muertos, pero cuando salieron, estuvieron juntos un rato, y empezaron a
hacer lo mismo que hacían antes”, expresó la mujer.
Florida Couple Convicted of Having Sex
on Beach
A couple accused of having sex on a
public beach in front of families has been found guilty by a jury.
It took the Manatee County jury about 15
minutes on Monday to find 20-year-old Elissa Alvarez and 40-year-old Jose
Caballero guilty of lewd and lascivious exhibition.
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Video played in the courtroom showed
Alvarez moving on top of Caballero in a sexual manner in broad daylight.
Witnesses testified that a 3-year-old girl saw them.
Both Caballero and Alvarez will now have
to register as sex offenders.
The convictions carry a maximum prison
sentence of 15 years.
The Bradenton Herald reports that a
sentencing date was not announced, but assistant state attorney Anthony
Dafonseca said they will pursue a harsher sentence for Caballero than Alvarez,
since Alvarez has no prior record, and Caballero has been to prison for almost
eight years for a cocaine trafficking conviction.
The state will ask for prison time for
both defendants.
"We gave them a reasonable offer,
what we felt was reasonable, and they decided it wasn't something they wanted
to accept responsibility for," Dafonseca said. "Despite the video,
despite all the witnesses."
Ed Brodsky, elected state attorney for the
16th judicial district, joined Defonseca in prosecuting the case. When asked
why the case was an important one to the state attorney, Dafonseca said it was
important that the community knew what wouldn't be tolerated on public beaches.
"We're dealing with basically
tourists, that came from Brandon and Riverview and West Virginia, and they're
here on the beaches of Manatee County, our public beaches," Dafonseca
said, referring to the witnesses. "So you want to make sure that this
isn't something that just goes by the wayside. And that it is well known to the
community, what will be tolerated and what won't be."
Family members of the couple defended
the two outside the courthouse, saying the crime did not deserve this kind of
attention.
"He's a great person," said
Caballero's mother of her son, declining to give her name. "There are
other things out there we need to worry about, and they're still loose, people
who have done worse stuff."
Dafonseca maintained that the crime was
not an innocent one, and that the couple's attitude and behavior that day
deserved punishment.
"You think about 2:30 in the
afternoon on a crowded beach, it takes a certain kind of person to do that in
front of children only feet away," he said.
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