Ex-JROTC instructor pleads not guilty to sex assault allegations

Posted on Oct 20 2015

Tag: JROTC, Marianas High School, MHS, Vince Torres

Ernest R. Torres, a former Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps instructor at Marianas High School, pleaded not guilty yesterday to allegations that he sexually assaulted the school’s JROTC female battalion commander in May.

At the arraignment before Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho, Torres, through counsel Vince Torres, waived reading of the information and pleaded not guilty to the charges of sexual assault in the second degree and assault and battery.

Torres, 58, was not arrested. The Superior Court’s clerk of court instead summoned him to appear in court yesterday at 9am for the arraignment.

Assistant attorney general Matthew C. Baisley appeared for the government. He stated in the information that Torres, at the time the JROTC instructor at MHS, “knowingly and repeatedly and without consent engaged in sexual contact” with a female student on May 12, 2015.

At the time of the incident, Baisley said, the student was 18 years old and a battalion commander of the school’s JROTC.

Baisley said Torres was the student’s JROTC instructor.

Ferdie De La Torre | Reporter

Ferdie Ponce de la Torre is a senior reporter of Saipan Tribune. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and has covered all news beats in the CNMI. He is a recipient of the CNMI Supreme Court Justice Award. Contact him at ferdie_delatorre@Saipantribune.com

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