The case of sexual abuse that Valentín Ortiz, a naturalized American, committed against a minor when he was 65 years old and she was 12, he finally has a punishment: he will spend five years and 11 months in prison, in addition to five years of supervised release and a federal judge also ordered him pay 10,000 dollars to the victim.
According to Univision, the man traveled several times from the United States to the Dominican Republic to sexually assault a minor with whom he not only had two children, but also married to “cover up his crimes.”
The case that has been classified by the authorities as pedophilia was discovered after Ortiz took his young wife to fill out a form to apply for a visa for her, where the man from 73 year never denied having had an improper relationship with the minor.
It was after the consular authorities in the Republic The Dominican Republic and federal agents made accounts that they realized that Ortiz was a pedophile.
According to the accounts, the US citizen abused the minor since he was 12 years old, 2017, and became a mother for the first time at 14 years old and had her second child when she turned 16.
“The government believes that Ortiz impregnated the young woman in February of 2008, when she was 13 years and 9 months old”, indicates the statement of Kathryn Murray, agent of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit.
A Through a statement, federal prosecutor Jacqueline C. Romero pointed out that: “Valentín Ortiz is a sexual predator who attacked a very young and vulnerable victim, traveling internationally to be able to take advantage of this girl without the same legal consequences that he could face in the United States. United States.”
He added: “As a United States citizen, you are prohibited from engaging in conduct so abominable abroad and consequently he must now be held accountable for his crimes,” he added.