密歇根州总检察长：Kalamazoo 两名男子被控一级性侵，将出庭受审
密歇根州总检察长 Dana Nessel 11月10日宣布，位于该州卡拉马祖县 Kalamazoo 市的两名男子上周被裁定出庭受审，两人各被控三项一级刑事性行为罪名。州总检察长办公室同日更正了此前稿件中一名被告姓氏的拼写。
据总检察长办公室，被告为30岁的 Juan Estaban Paz 与31岁的 Mario Alexis Rodriguez-Barraza。检方指控，两人2015年在其位于 Kalamazoo 的公寓内性侵一名当时18岁的女子：受害人是 Paz 高中时认识的人，两人邀她到公寓、提供大麻并劝她饮酒，随后多次性侵，造成其身体受伤与严重精神痛苦。受害人2015年即报案，案件当时经调查后，由 Kalamazoo 公共安全局移交给卡拉马祖县性侵证据盒计划（SAKI）。初步聆讯与移交受审裁定于11月2日完成，案件将在第九巡回法院审理。
Nessel 表示，全州各地的 SAKI 单位为许多性侵受害人争取公道，Kalamazoo 的 SAKI 单位是把这类案件送上法庭与陪审团的领先范例。卡拉马祖县检察官 Jeffrey S. Getting 表示，县检察官办公室会全力以赴为受害人追求公道。
密歇根州的 SAKI 计划2016年设立，负责调查与起诉与此前未检测的性侵证据盒有关的案件。Kalamazoo 的 SAKI 是州总检察长办公室、卡拉马祖县检察官办公室与 Kalamazoo 基督教女青年会（YWCA）的合作项目。掌握本案或两人类似行为线索者，可联系 SAKI 调查员 Nick Bobo，电话269-303-8524。
总检察长办公室提醒，刑事指控仅为指控，被告在被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
（来源：密歇根州总检察长办公室）
Michigan AG: Two Kalamazoo Men to Stand Trial on First-Degree Sexual Assault Charges
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on November 10 that two Kalamazoo men were bound over last week to stand trial in the 9th Circuit Court in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, on three counts each of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Her office also corrected the spelling of one defendant's last name from a prior version of the release.
The defendants are Juan Estaban Paz, 30, and Mario Alexis Rodriguez-Barraza, 31. It is alleged that in 2015 the two raped a then-18-year-old woman in Rodriguez-Barraza's Kalamazoo apartment: the victim, a prior high school acquaintance of Paz, was invited to the apartment, provided marijuana and encouraged to consume alcohol, before being repeatedly assaulted, resulting in bodily injury and significant mental anguish. The victim reported the alleged assault in 2015; the case was investigated at the 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.
Nessel said the state's SAKI units provide essential efforts toward justice for many victims of sexual assault, and called the Kalamazoo unit a leading example. Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey S. Getting said his office is committed to the pursuit of justice on behalf of the victim and every survivor.
Michigan's SAKI was established in 2016 to investigate and prosecute sexual assaults related to previously untested sexual assault evidence kits; the Kalamazoo unit is a collaborative project of the state Attorney General, the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor's Office, and the YWCA of Kalamazoo. Anyone with information about this incident or similar conduct is asked to contact Kalamazoo County SAKI Investigator Nick Bobo at 269-303-8524.
The Attorney General's office noted that a criminal charge is merely an allegation and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
(Source: Michigan Attorney General's Office)
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