Thread: Accused Rapist Extradited From Maryland (Updated)

Guevara-Oliva Could Face Life in Prison for Assaulting 13-Year-Old Stepdaughter

Monday, June 3, 2013
By James Moore
independent.com



On Friday, May 31, Santa Barbara District Attorney Joyce Dudley announced that, for the first time in the county’s history, an alleged sex offender will face a potential life sentence without the possibility of parole.

In March, The Santa Barbara Independent reported that Santos Javier Guevara-Oliva — a fugitive wanted for forcibly molesting and raping his 13-year-old stepdaughter — had been arrested in Hyasttsville, Maryland, where he was awaiting extradition to Santa Barbara. Now, he is back in S.B. and awaiting his arraignment.

Guevara-Oliva had been wanted on a “no bail warrant” since February 1, when the DA’s Office filed a number of charges that implicated him in the assault on the young girl. He became the subject of a manhunt when he fled the area before Sheriff’s Investigators could bring him in for questioning.

With help from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, Sheriff’s detectives found out that Guevara-Oliva was actually a citizen of El Salvador. Deported from the United States in 2009 after being convicted of grand theft and false imprisonment, he then illegally re-entered the U.S. and settled in Carpinteria. After Guevara-Oliva disappeared from Santa Barbara County, Sheriff’s detectives began an extensive investigation and tracked him all the way to Hyattsville.

Guevara-Oliva is currently in custody at the Santa Barbara County Jail, where he is being held without bail. His arraignment is scheduled for Monday, June 3, in the Figueroa Divison of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court.

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Friday, March 27, 2015
By Kelsey Brugger

A Santa Barbara jury took just 18 minutes to come to a guilty verdict for the 34-year-old Carpinteria man who impregnated his 13-year-old stepdaughter in 2012. Charged with forcible rape and aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14 with a special allegation of inflicting great bodily injury, Santos Guevara could become the first child molester in the county to go to prison for life without the possibility of parole.


Santos Guevara-Oliva
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Prosecuting attorney Benjamin Ladinig argued Guevara shattered the childhood of his stepdaughter by sexually abusing her when she was 13. Twenty years her senior, Guevara forcibly raped her after pulling her pants down several times as she pulled them back up, Ladinig argued on Friday during closing arguments. “When a little 13-year-old girl pulls up her pants to keep her step-daddy from raping her, she is indicating no,” he charged. “Her first act of intimacy on Earth was by her stepfather putting his tongue down her throat,” Ladinig went on.

In early 2013, the girl went to the hospital complaining of chest pains, and doctors discovered that she was 17 weeks pregnant. Two days later, the girl had an abortion and stayed home from school for several weeks. These events constitute the special allegation, Ladinig contended, adding that pregnancy — though not typically considered such — is great bodily injury when it’s caused by rape.

Addressing the jurors, public defender Mindi Boulet acknowledged this was not an easy case to sit through, as there is no doubt Guevara committed lewd acts, sexual battery, and genital penetration. But Boulet contended that Guevara was never on top of the girl and that the intercourse was not the result of force, asking the jury to find him guilty of battery and assault instead. She further argued pregnancy is a “natural and human condition” and that emotional trauma — which the girl certainly experienced, she said — is not great bodily injury. “Your duty is to be a fact finder and not to determine if he’s a bad guy,” Boulet argued.

In February 2013, Guevara, who is from El Salvador, was arrested by U.S. Marshals and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maryland, where he had fled to stay with his sister. According to ICE, he had been deported in 2010 but illegally reentered the country. He was brought back to Santa Barbara from Maryland and has been in County Jail without bail ever since. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 11.

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Aaah, another one of Obama's California Dreamer Boys. A fine one, this one. This is certainly what we need more of in the United States, right, National Council of La Raza? Right Baptists? Right Harry? Right Nancy? Right Democrats? Right Lindsay? Right McCain? Right Scott Walker, Mr. Path to Legal Status?

But a life sentence? Sorry, no. I wouldn't want to pay to house this piece of crap for the rest of his life. The article says this is his stepdaughter, which means he's married to her mother, where's the mother in all of this? Why did she marry this piece of crap illegal alien criminal and have him around her daughter?

A pregnancy for a 13 year old is without question "great bodily harm", any day, any time.