Posted on 04/28/2024 5:08:19 PM PDT by lowbridge
A court has sentenced a former Democratic Arizona state lawmaker after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a child. He was convicted in February of molesting a young teenage boy that he was caring for at the time.
Sen. Otoniel Navarrete on Friday was sentenced to only one year in prison for his crime.
A former state lawmaker found guilty of one charge of sexual conduct with a minor was sentenced to one year in prison on Friday, a far cry from the 49 years he initially faced.
With good behavior, former Arizona Sen. Otoniel “Tony” Navarrete could be released earlier.
A jury in February found Navarrete guilty of sexual conduct with a minor aged 15 or older, a Class 6 felony. The Phoenix Democrat was acquitted of one count of child molestation and another sexual conduct charge.
According to the Arizona Republic, Navarrete turned down a 60-day sentence followed by 10 years of supervised probation because that deal meant he would have to admit guilt in the crimes. He had maintained his innocence in statements after the indictment was released.
He was arrested in 2021, amid his third term as a state lawmaker. Navarrete faced 49 years in prison for his crimes involving multiple minors, but a November 2023 mistrial washed away most of those charges.
The victim, who was between the ages of 13 and 15 when he was molested, told the court during the trial that he lived with the lawmaker even after being sexually assaulted, because he had been living in a “dysfunctional” home.
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Otoniel Navarrete D evil
He’s a typical demonrat criminal pervert.
He’s just more proof that demonrats are the party of criminals, con artists and perverts.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tony Navarrete
Born 1985 or 1986 (age 37–38)
Political party Democratic
Otoniel “Tony” Navarrete (born October 14, 1986)[1] is an American politician who served as the state senator for Arizona’s 30th legislative district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served one term as a state representative for Arizona’s 30th legislative district from 2017 to 2019. He resigned from the state senate on August 10, 2021, after being charged with multiple counts of sexual conduct with underaged children.[2][3]
Career
Navarrete was a community organizer with Promise Arizona, a pro-immigration advocacy group which helped Hispanics and Latinos register to vote at taco trucks after Marco Gutierrez’s “taco trucks on every corner” remark.[4][5] During his time in office, Navarrete was one of four openly LGBT members of the Arizona State Legislature, alongside Robert Meza, Daniel Hernández, and Cesar Chavez,[6] and was a founding member of the legislature’s LGBT caucus.[7]
Child sex abuse charges
On August 5, 2021, Navarrete was arrested in Phoenix on multiple charges of sexual conduct with a minor in 2019, including one count of molestation of a minor involving two boys aged 16 and 13.
The two victims worked with the FBI to secure verbal testimony from Navarrete admitting to and apologizing for the sexual acts. The two boys, per the police report, were his nephews. Navarette abused one boy at night for several years per recorded conversations overhead by police. He was released on a $50,000 secured bond. The serious nature of the charges resulted in bipartisan calls for his resignation.[2] Navarette resigned on August 10, 2021.
Sounds like a serial abuser who got off on a technicality. Wonder what the result would have been if he were a Republican.
What an insult and travesty of justice.
Just one year, he should have been executed.
WUT? A politician scumbag?
Not to caring..this care taker.
Should get life for being a democrat...in a just world.
One year only?
If it were my child, he would be dead, and I would be serving a much longer sentence in prison.
He’s a Democrat lawmaker, not a democratic lawmaker. Why does everybody see the adjective?
It’s the Democrat party, Democrat voters, Democrat policies and Democrat administration. Ronald Reagan got it right. Donald Trump gets it right.
I wish everyone would stop using the wrong word.
Wow,,,a whole year, probably less. What a deterrent sentence!
Way to administer that justice.
Damn child molesting DemonRATS.
Molesta child? One year.
Enter the Capitol on Jan 6? Multiple years.
Make this make sense.
You can’t.
Two-tiered justice system.
Please tell me he has no relatives.
If he were a Republican he would have been publicly executed!
There is NOTHING “democratic” about the DEMOCRAT PARTY!
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