Assistant Attorney General Shelli Neal, who is prosecuting the case, also filed a motion opposing the second motion to modify bail of the defendant, Pedro Ilo Sablan, 62, to visit his grandchildren who are not living with him.
On Aug. 16, Judge Kenneth L. Govendo ordered the release of Sablan from the custody of the Department of Corrections facility after the defendant signed a $50,000 property bond.
Sablan was placed on house arrest and was ordered not to leave his Kagman residence. He was released to his wife as his third party custodian.
He is charged with four counts of sexual abuse of the same victim, a minor, in the first degree.
The incident occurred in June-July 2011, according to AGO.
Sablan, who has denied the charges, is represented by Assistant Public Defender Matthew Meyer.
Sablan “presents a continuing danger to the community,” Neal told the court.
“Child sex abuse is on the rise in the commonwealth and should be deterred. [Sablan’s] current conditions of release allow him to have contact with minor children. Today, he asks the court to allow him to have contact with even more children…. [His] third-party custodian is not suitable in this case nor capable of keeping children safe from her husband.”
Neal said the victim “suffers from developmental disabilities and was placed in the [DYS] shelter to keep her safe from neglect, abuse and/or maltreatment.”
The victim was taken out from her parents’ home and placed at the shelter as a result of multiple instances of sexual abuse, Neal said.
Sablan “disabled the recording devices in order to complete his crime” which is an “evidence of a planned criminal episode rather than a crime of opportunity,” Neal added.
“It also suggests that [Sablan] will go to great lengths to conceal his crimes,” the prosecutor said.
