Arrogant pig.
He's too stupid to be in the USAFA...on our dime, no less.
Bonehead can deny all he wants.....he left a paper trail and a DNA trail.
Posted on 04/30/2019 5:35:55 PM PDT by usafa92
DENVER — A U.S. Air Force cadet accused of brutally raping another cadet last year went on trial Monday in federal district court.
Alvaro Pablo Velarde, an international student from Lima, Peru, faces two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact.
A female cadet said he raped her in her dorm room so violently on Oct. 23, 2018 she was in intense pain and left with a concussion. It is the policy of Denver7 to not identify victims of alleged sexual assault.
Velarde was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2018.
Prosecutors said Monday Velarde ignored the victim’s pleas to stop as he raped her.
He forced her pants down, forced her onto the bed, sexually assaulted her and hit her head so hard she felt “dazed,” federal prosecutor Emily Treaster told the jury in opening statements.
The victim was crying during the incident, Treaster said.
At the end of the incident, as the victim looked for her clothes, Treaster said Velarde cleared his throat to get her attention and held up her clothes. He then forced the victim to kiss him before he left her dorm room, Treaster claimed.
Defense attorney claims
Defense attorney Mark Scabavea has described the case as a “he said, she said,” case and told the jury on Monday that this case stemmed from the "Me Too" movement.
He said the victim had a serious boyfriend and learned her parents were getting a divorce. He said the victim claimed she was raped after consensually having sex with the defendant and cheating on her “serious” boyfriend.
Velarde’s father does not believe the allegations. Through an interpreter, he told Denver7 he raised his son to have values.
“I never imaged living through these moments because I raised him with values and the right morals,” Dagoberto Velarde said after court. “My kids grew up with both me and my wife teaching them two very important values in life, which is punctuality and always living by the truth."
Dagoberto Velarde said his son was kicked out of the Air Force Academy after the victim made allegations and an investigation was started.
Court transcripts of previous court hearings show the victim went to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs in severe pain. She was later diagnosed with a concussion, according to a federal investigator who testified at Velarde’s detention hearing.
The victim was crying in pain and needed two doses of pain killers, a nurse who treated the victim previously told investigators.
The defendant’s roommate told investigators that Velarde admitted that he continued having sex with her even after she asked him to stop, according to court records.
DNA testing showed Velarde had sex with the victim, an investigator testified.
At one point during the rape investigation, investigators said three people said they heard Velarde say, “Something to the effect of, ‘I’m an international student and I have to kill somebody to get kicked out of the academy.’”
The victim told another cadet within minutes of the alleged sexual assault, an investigator previously also testified.
Velarde is being held in the Jefferson County Jail.
Most Air Force Academy cadets are required to be United States citizens, but international students are exempt from this requirement, according to the U.S. Air Force Academy website.
The trial is expected to last five days.
There are some serious problems at USAFA. I’m not a head in the sand person, but 4 years I spent there and about the biggest problem was a DUI or someone getting restricted for something dumb. There was no drinking in the dorms (mostly) and sex in the dorms was almost unheard of. You got a room in C-Springs or found a friend who had an apartment. It seems there is a huge cultural issue with the student body these days and the permissive attitude fostered these days only makes it worse.
The USAFA is a cess pool. Problems from start to finish, not the least of which was the homosexual female General who was just kicked out of her job a month before she was due to leave for Washington. According to news reports, she was at the academy with her wife and children......what could possibly be wrong there???
The problem is modern gender ideals and places like the military don’t mix. You will get false and actual crimes and innumerable other assorted problems packing the sexes together in these circumstances. The media certainly won’t shut up about the epidemic of problems but unerringly will avoid any mention of the root cause, preferring to wag the finger at evil men.
So you have to be a US citizen, unless you are not.
WTF?
Probably why the Commandant of Cadets was canned.
Most Air Force Academy cadets are required to be United States citizens, but international students are exempt from this requirement, according to the U.S. Air Force Academy website.
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They need to fix the glitch.
The romantic element doesn’t belong on the combat team. To quote Donald Trump...”What do you expect”...and imagine how bad it will be with predatory homosexuals as drill sergeants. I was in one unit where the chaplain was getting weekly complaints from new female enlisted soldiers about the butch female NCO’s in the female barracks. You can imagine how the predisposition of people to serve declines when they go home and tell of their experiences. The Modern Romans.
Ping
Arrogant pig.
He's too stupid to be in the USAFA...on our dime, no less.
Bonehead can deny all he wants.....he left a paper trail and a DNA trail.
My two cents, which is all this is worth, is that I am in the corner of the alleged victim in this instance, and for these reasons:
1. Alleged victim told another cadet of alleged assault immediately following the event. Not days later, not months later, not years later. Within a few hours of the event.
2. Alleged victim went to get medical evaluation very soon after the event. Forensic evidence was gathered. Alleged victim didn’t refuse to have evidence taken, as happens sometimes, especially when an alleged victim doesn’t even bother going for medical treatment within a day or two.
3. DNA showed that the accused actually did leave evidence behind in/on the body of the alleged victim. That means she didn’t make this up completely out of thin air, as happened with the Duke lacrosse team.
Ok, those are my reasons for believing her, The accused’s father’s opinion doesn’t matter in the least. Most parents think/wish that their kids are innocent of wrongdoing. It doesn’t always mean that’s the truth,
how does an “exchange student” get into the Academy?
I was puzzled by that too
I had to read that a few times myself and still can’t figure out what their trying to say.
Just chalk it up to the new norm that everyone in the world has US rights without the hassle of US laws except law abiding US citizens.
I dont think him being Peruvian is the larger story here.
I’ve read too many articles where it was a home grown fella that did the raping.
Rape is horrifically wrong no matter what, but mixing men and women in the military probably wasn’t the greatest idea.
Either that or too many men today just don’t have nearly enough control.
What is it with these men from south of the border? Do they think they can just take what they want? Must have a mighty low opinion of women.
Wait they finally kicked out that fugly dike? That’s damn good news.
I’m believing the woman on this one.
OK,so they are not IN the USAF, just attending the Academy
We have arrangements with some countries to allow a few of their students to attend our service academies. They wear their countries uniforms and do not commission into our service but go back home to serve. I’m pretty certain their country foots the bill based on the service requirement one young man from Madagascar had upon graduation from USNA, ten years.
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