The court allowed Manzo to post $800 as 10 percent of his bail order and was ordered to not have any contact with his victim.
Manzo was arrested on the charge of threatening to kill his victim with a hammer on Aug. 27, 2011.
On Dec. 12, 2011, Assistant Attorney General Eileen Escudero Wisor filed separate charges against Manzo for four counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree, and four counts of disturbing the peace.
Four victims, between 13 and 14 years old, were involved, according to court documents.
The incidents happened in the summer of 2010 and in March 2011, the prosecution said.
Manzo through the Public Defender’s Office has asked the court to lift the “no contact with the victim” condition in his first case.
Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja denied Manzo’s motion.
Naraja said the court will give deference to the Family Court Division’s ruling on “monitored visits,” if any.
In her opposition to Manzo’s application for bail modification, Escudero said the August incident was triggered by the victim’s refusal to Manzo’s request to invite the victim’s girlfriends for a sleepover.
Manzo and his victim in the August incident were related.
The prosecution said the victim was receiving complaints and statements of fear about Manzo from at least five female friends involving multiple occasions “when [Manzo] had sexually molested them during these ‘sleepovers.’ ”
Manzo would sleep in the same room with the victims, according to the prosecution.
The prosecution said Manzo is “a danger to the community using his victim as a means to sexually abuse her friends who were also minor children.”
Manzo is “a danger to the psychological well-being of his [victim] as she is aware of [Manzo’s] actions,” the prosecution added.
Manzo “has already attempted to contact these additional victims through his [victim whom he tried to kill with a hammer] and their parents to petition them to rescind their claims of sexual abuse,” the prosecution stated in its opposition to Manzo’s request.
The prosecution said at least five minor children have reported approximately 20 incidents of being molested by Manzo.
The prosecution said the “government pleads with the court” to recognize that Manzo “is engaging in a behavior consistent with that of a predator, who has a violent temper at not receiving what he wants.”
The prosecution said “any contact from [Manzo] to his [victim] imminently imperils her and any friend associations she may have in the community.”
Manzo “poses an extreme danger to the community and has already engaged in witness tampering,” the prosecution said.
Over five minor children and one parent have reported “acts of sexual molestation at the hands” of Manzo, the prosecution said.
This parent, according to the prosecution, reported that immediately after Manzo’s release, the defendant approached the parent to “apologize for what he did to her daughter.”
Manzo also pleaded with the parent “to drop the case because he doesn’t want to go back to jail.”
The prosecution said another parent is reported to have advocated on behalf of Manzo “to forgive him for what he’s done” which, the prosecution added, “only serves to corroborate the witness’ claims of molestation.”
