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- Personal First Class Avery L. Rosario has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old woman in Camp Pendleton
- His case has been referred to a court-martial, and arraignment is scheduled for Thursday
- Rosario’s protection claimed he met the woman on Tinder the place she claimed she was 21-years-old
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A United States marine charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old woman on a California navy base will face a court-martial, whereas his protection claims he met the woman on a courting app the place she lied about her age.
Personal First Class Avery L. Rosario was charged by navy prosecutors after the teenage woman, who had been lacking for 18 days, was discovered at Camp Pendleton in June.
Now the case will head to a common court-martial to be tried in navy courtroom, in response to a spokesperson for the first Marine Logistics Group, reported NBC San Diego.
Rosario’s protection stated he met the woman on Tinder and her profile stated she was 21-years-old.
His court-martial arraignment is scheduled for Thursday the place he can be learn the formal costs, enter his plea after which trial dates can be scheduled.
Personal First Class Avery L. Rosario is seen escorted to an August listening to over the fees alleging he sexually assaulted a teenage woman at Camp Pendleton
Rosario, seen handcuffed in July, claimed he met the woman on Tinder and that her profile stated she was 21-years-old
Rosario was first made conscious of the fees in August 17 at an Article 32 listening to, which is the navy equal of a civilian preliminary courtroom listening to.
The defendant is seen being escorted between two different service members taking him to the navy courtroom.
On the listening to, his attorneys emphasised Tinder is for informal intercourse and stated their interplay started on June 26 when Rosario matched with the woman who created a profile beneath the pseudonym ‘Kayla,’
They stated the 2 started messaging and the teenager recommended they transfer their dialog to Instagram and even proposed they get a resort room.
Rosario claimed he drove to choose up the woman and the 2 had consensual intercourse on the barracks.
The subsequent day, Rosario left her on the barracks and she or he spoke with two different folks, one in every of them a lance corporal, the protection stated.
He’ll face costs together with sexual assault of a kid who has attained the age of 12 years. He’s additionally dealing with separate costs of violating liberty restrictions, which restrict the place service members are allowed to go.
Lawyer Gary Barthel, who just isn’t representing Rosario however attended his August listening to, stated the protection is making an attempt to show he didn’t know the ladies age.
‘It’s a authorized protection if he moderately believed that she was of age, and I believe that is what the protection identified, not solely that he believed she was of age, however there have been different witnesses who additionally thought she was of age,’ Barthel instructed CBS 8.
The unnamed woman went lacking on June 10 and her household has claimed she was bought to a Marine stationed on the base as a intercourse slave.
Officers beforehand confirmed Rosario was the identical male seen in a video posted to social media that confirmed a soldier being led away in handcuffs by navy police outdoors one of many camp’s barracks on July 2.
That video was recorded lower than 4 days after the unnamed woman was discovered at one of many barracks, sparking the investigation.
The unnamed woman was lacking for 18 days when she was discovered at Camp Pendleton in California
A leaked photograph on-line reveals what seems to be a handwritten logbook from Camp Pendleton that states that an ‘underage feminine’ was present in room 343
Casaundra Perez, the woman’s aunt, claimed investigators have tried to put blame on the minor and get the incident ‘swept beneath the rug.’
‘[Investigators] have been accusing [my niece] of speaking with the Marine, and saying that he was her boyfriend, however she does not even know the Marine’s identify,’ Perez instructed the Los Angeles Instances.
A leaked photograph posted on-line confirmed what gave the impression to be a handwritten logbook from the San Diego-area base that states that an ‘underage feminine’ was present in room 343. It mentions, nonetheless, that the woman was 13.
It’s unclear why the ages differ. DailyMail.com couldn’t confirm the authenticity of the web page.
