HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Three men and a 16-year-old boy charged as an adult were accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl.
Manuel Greg Arriola, 34, Patrick Robert Duenas Arriola, 41, Norman Sablan Santos, 56, and Paul Aguero, 16, were charged Friday in the Superior Court of Guam with first-degree criminal sexual conduct as first-degree felonies.
According to a magistrate’s complaint, the male defendants’ charges stemmed from reports made to a school employee at an elementary school on Feb. 1. An 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl accused the men of sexually assaulting them.
The 11-year-old alleged Manuel Arriola had been touching her sexually since she was in first grade. She also alleged Manuel Arriola took her to a secluded area in the jungle near her Dededo residence, laid her down on a piece of flat plywood and raped her. Manuel Arriola also allegedly raped the minor on a different occasion at her Dededo residence, according to the complaint.
The 13-year-old also accused Manuel Arriola of raping her at a Dededo residence.
According to the complaint, Patrick Arriola was accused by the 11-year-old girl of touching her sexually and raping her inside a van.
The 13-year-old reported Patrick Arriola groped her on numerous occasions, but on one occasion, Patrick Arriola allegedly “bribed (the 13-year-old girl) to have sex with him by offering her a vape,” the complaint stated.
Santos allegedly sexually touched the 11-year-old girl starting when she was in the fourth grade, and also allegedly raped her on the living room floor of her Dededo residence.
The 13-year-old girl accused Aguero of groping her on at least one occasion, while the 11-year-old girl reported Aguero had sexual intercourse with her in the bedroom of a Dededo residence and also on top of a broken table outside the Dededo residence, the complaint stated.
Another female, age 18, also accused Manuel Arriola of raping her.
According to the complaint, another male minor was interviewed and arrested after telling police that he did “touch a private part of one of the females.”
Santos, when interviewed by officers with the Guam Police Department, allegedly admitted to touching the 11-year-old’s private area, the complaint stated.
Manuel Arriola was charged with three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, Patrick Arriola was charged with two counts, and Santos and Aguero were charged with one count each.
The Guam Judicial Center in Hagåtña is seen on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024.
