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Indictment amended vs woman facing enticement of minor charge
The U.S. government amended yesterday the indictment filed against Alexandra Castro Macabalo, a woman facing a charge in federal court for enticing her then-15-year-old cousin to engage in sex for cash with a government official in 2013.
The amended indictment still has the same charge of one count of enticement of a minor.
The original indictment charged Macabalo with enticement of a minor by “persuading, inducing, and enticing” a minor to either “engage in prostitution,” or “any sexual activity for which any person could be charged with a criminal offense.”
The amended indictment removed the second clause.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona allowed the U.S. government to amend the indictment.
Manglona said by dropping the second clause, the proposed amended indictment simply withdraws “one alleged method of committing” the crime.
“Such a narrowing does not require resubmission to the grand jury,” said Manglona in granting the U.S. government’s motion to amend the indictment.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Macabalo last April after a complaint was filed in court, charging her with enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution and other sexual activity.
The indictment was later subsequently filed.
