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Upgraded Criminal Charge For Dr. Marco Tulio
Thu, April 16, 2015
PUP Orange Walk East Area Representative Marco Tulio Mendez will face more serious charges of child molestation after the DPP reviewed the file.

Months after Mendez was arraigned, the investigation file was finally sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl Lynn Vidal. After going over the evidence, she found evidence for another charge that the officers did not lay against Mendez.

This afternoon, DPP Vidal told us that the investigators charged him with indecent assault based on the claim that he allegedly touched these girls in a sexual manner. That's an aggravated assault, but DPP Vidal told us that one of the teenagers reported details more serious than that. She told us that there is evidence from one of the complainants which suggests that Mendez was trying to have intercourse with her.

Legally, the offence of attempting to commit carnal knowledge is more serious than aggravated assault. That means that now the case definitely has to go to the Supreme Court - previously it would have been heard at the Magistrate's level. So, that means more bad news for Mendez, who confidently declared on Monday that he will be acquitted when his day in court comes. Here are those comments again:

Reporter
"Do you remain your innocence in all of this? I mean, you are being accused of several charges?"

Hon. Marco Tulio Mendez - Charged with Child Molestation
"Of course, I will prove my innocence in the court."

Reporter
"With the public, there is a different perspective of you out there sir."

Hon. Marco Tulio Mendez - Charged with Child Molestation
"But it is the court that will decide and I will prove my innocence there."

It appears that police got the directive a little too late on Monday to act on, and so the charge wasn't brought against Mendez immediately after his arraignment. We understand that investigators are waiting for his next court date of August 11, and at that time, they will bring that upgraded offence against him.

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