{"id":212729,"date":"2015-10-20T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=212729"},"modified":"2015-10-20T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T20:00:04","slug":"ex-jrotc-instructor-pleads-not-guilty-to-sex-assault-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-jrotc-instructor-pleads-not-guilty-to-sex-assault-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-JROTC instructor pleads not guilty to sex assault allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s JROTC female battalion commander in May.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Torres, 58, was not arrested. The Superior Court\u2019s clerk of court instead summoned him to appear in court yesterday at 9am for the arraignment.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cknowingly and repeatedly and without consent engaged in sexual contact\u201d with a female student on May 12, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the incident, Baisley said, the student was 18 years old and a battalion commander of the school\u2019s JROTC.<\/p>\n<p>Baisley said Torres was the student\u2019s JROTC instructor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest R. Torres, a former Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps instructor at Marianas High School,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[633,1772,365,7676],"class_list":["post-212729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-jrotc","tag-marianas-high-school","tag-mhs","tag-vince-torres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}