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Ex-cop gets 5-day prison term for beating boy for watching porn
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Posted on May 21 2020
A former police officer charged with beating a 13-year-old boy for watching a porn pleaded guilty yesterday in the Superior Court and was slapped with a five-day prison sentence.
Juan Roligat Limes, 48, pleaded guilty to assault and battery.
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At the hearing held in the Supreme Court’s courtroom, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho sentenced Limes to one year imprisonment, all suspended except for five days. Limes was given credit for five days of time served. This means he will no longer serve jail time but was also ordered to pay a $200 fine, which may be converted to community service, $25 in court costs, and $120 in probation fee.
Limes was placed on 12 months of supervised probation and required to complete 40 hours of community service. He was also required to complete anger management and parenting classes at the Community Guidance Center.
The Office of the Attorney General had charged Limes with assault and battery last April 20. If he had gone to trial and been convicted, he would have faced a possible maximum sentence of one year imprisonment.
According to the plea deal, Limes beat up the boy on April 7, 2020, on Saipan. According to police detective Rosa T. Rios in her report, it was the boy’s stepmother who filed the complaint after she witnessed Limes beating up the child. The boy, who had bruises on the face at that time, was taken to the hospital for evaluation as he complained of headache and numbness in the head and face. The complainant said she saw Limes repeatedly slapping and punching the boy. She then pushed Limes away, then the boy ran behind her. Limes continued throwing punches at the boy. The complainant said Limes claimed that he was upset after he caught the boy watching porn.
Assistant public defender Vina Seelam served as counsel for Limes. Assistant attorney general Erin Toolan appeared for the government.
In April 2006, then-associate judge Juan T. Lizama sentenced Limes to 20 days in prison for beating up his wife and another woman in two separate incidents on Christmas Eve of 2004. When the incidents happened, Limes was an off-duty police detective, according to court records.
