密歇根州Kalamazoo两名男子将受审：被控2015年一级刑事性侵，各面临三项指控
密歇根州总检察长 Dana Nessel 11月9日宣布，Kalamazoo 的两名男子上周被裁定交付受审：Juan Estaban Paz（30岁）与 Mario Alexis Rodriguez-Barraca（31岁）将在 Kalamazoo 县第九巡回法院受审，各面临三项一级刑事性侵（First-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct）指控。
检方指称，Paz 与 Rodriguez-Barraca 于2015年在 Rodriguez-Barraca 位于 Kalamazoo 的公寓内强奸了一名当时18岁的女性。据指控，两人邀请受害人到公寓，受害人是 Paz 高中时认识的人；他们向她提供大麻并鼓励她饮酒，随后多次对她实施性侵，造成身体伤害与重大精神痛苦。受害人于2015年报案，案件当时经调查，后由 Kalamazoo 公共安全部转交 Kalamazoo 县性侵工具包倡议（SAKI）处理。初步聆讯与交付受审于11月2日完成。
Nessel 说：「我们全州的 SAKI 单位为许多性侵受害人争取正义付出了不可或缺的努力，我很感谢他们的付出与合作。许多案件中，即使性侵已过去多年，正义仍有可能实现，Kalamazoo 的 SAKI 单位正是把这类案件送上法庭与陪审团的领先范例。」
性侵工具包倡议（SAKI）是针对历年积压的性侵检材工具包进行检测与重新调查的项目，密歇根州总检察长办公室在全州多县设有 SAKI 单位，专门推进陈年性侵案件。本案两名被告目前为指控阶段，是否定罪有待法院审理。
（来源：密歇根州总检察长办公室）
Two Kalamazoo Men to Stand Trial on First-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct Charges in 2015 Case
Last week, two Kalamazoo men, Juan Estaban Paz, 30, and Mario Alexis Rodriguez-Barraca, 31, were bound over to stand trial in the 9th Circuit Court in Kalamazoo County on three counts each of First-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on November 9.
It is alleged that Paz and Rodriguez-Barraca raped a then-18-year-old woman in Rodriguez-Barraca's Kalamazoo apartment in 2015. The two men allegedly invited the victim, a prior high school acquaintance of Paz, to the apartment, provided her with marijuana and encouraged her consumption of alcohol, before repeatedly assaulting her, resulting in bodily injury and significant mental anguish. The victim reported the alleged assault in 2015, which was investigated at that time and later referred, by the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, to the Kalamazoo County Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI). The preliminary examination and bind over occurred on November 2.
'Our SAKI units across the State provide essential efforts toward justice for many victims of sexual assault, and I'm grateful for their efforts and our partnership,' said Attorney General Nessel. 'In many cases, justice remains possible even years after an assault, and the Kalamazoo SAKI unit is a leading example of how to bring these cases before a court and jury.'
The defendants face charges only at this stage; any conviction is for the court to decide at trial.
(Source: Michigan Attorney General)
来源：密歇根州总检察长办公室
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