Superior Court Associate Judge Wesley Bogdan, at a bail hearing on Thursday morning, imposed a $50,000 cash bail on Sablan who was charged with one count of sexual assault in the second degree.
At the hearing, attorney Matthew Holley appeared on behalf of the defendant for a limited basis while Assistant Attorney General Samantha Vickery represented the government.
Judge Bogdan remanded Sablan to the custody of the Department of Corrections and ordered the defendant to return to court on Dec. 23 at 9 a.m. for preliminary hearing and on Jan. 5 at 9 a.m. for arraignment.
The victim told police that on Dec. 11, around 4 a.m., Sablan sexually harassed and assaulted her in her room at a residence in Gualo Rai.
According to the victim’s mother, Sablan in a phone call to her on the same day at 9 a.m. told her, “I think you and [the victim] need to move out and move on, because [the victim’s] too beautiful and I don’t know if I can control myself.”
She added that she heard her daughter in the same call shouting, “Mommy, come home please!”
