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Sex offender gets 13 months in jail
Sex offender Ivan Jones Castro was slapped with one year and 30 days in prison for his failure to update the Department of Public Safety Sex Offender Registry Section about his verification information, for having contact with minor children, and for violating his probation conditions.
In a written order issued on Wednesday, Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio sentenced the 39-year-old Castro to a total of one year and 30 days of imprisonment, to the offenses of failure to update registration information, impermissible contact with minors, and violating his probation.
Castro was given credit of 161 days of time served. It means that he will be released from the Department of Corrections on Dec. 16, 2016.
After completing the prison term, Castro will be placed on supervised probation for three years.
The defendant was ordered to pay a $100 fine, $25 in court assessment fee, and $200 in probation fee.
Castro was required to abide by all the terms and conditions of the Sex Offender Registry, including notifying DPS of any address changes within two days and not living in a household with any non-biological minors.
Castro and his counsel, assistant public defender Tillman Clark, signed a plea deal with the government represented by assistant attorney general Chester Hinds.
According to the factual basis of the plea agreement, on Aug. 25 to Oct. 13, 2015 on Saipan, Castro failed to update a change in his residence and place of employment with DPS. He resided in a residence with two minor children in violation of his probation condition imposed in his previous conviction.
Castro was among four men originally charged for kidnapping of a student in Kagman on June 15, 2010 and raping her at Tank Beach. One defendant pleaded guilty and subsequently sentenced in 2011 to 15 years in prison.
In December 2010, Associate Judge David A. Wiseman dismissed without prejudice the charges against Castro and two co-defendants at the request of the OAG, after the results of a DNA test turned up inconclusive.
