Steven Romie Aguon, a 36-year-old sex offender who has several prior convictions including voluntary manslaughter, was arrested again on Monday for allegedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in Chalan Kanoa. <\/p>\n
Aguon was taken to Superior Court yesterday on charges of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree, assault and battery, and disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n
Citing prior convictions, Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio increased cash bail to $100,000 from the original $50,000 cash bail that the court imposed in issuing an arrest warrant. <\/p>\n
Assistant public defender Cindy Nesbit was appointed as counsel for Aguon. Assistant attorney general Shannon Foley appeared for the government. <\/p>\n
Preliminary hearing will be on Sept. 7 at 9am.<\/p>\n
Police Detective Catherine B. Pangelinan stated in her report that three police officers responded to a residence in Chalan Kanoa on Sunday night to investigate a report about sexual abuse of a minor.<\/p>\n
Pangelinan said the officers met a woman, who alleged that Aguon sexually abused her 10-year-old son.<\/p>\n
Pangelinan said she also responded and during her interview, the boy\u2019s father stated that his son came home late and revealed that he went biking around with Aguon.<\/p>\n
The father was concerned because he is aware that Aguon was once arrested for sexual abuse of a minor. When the father felt something wrong he confronted his son to tell the truth.<\/p>\n
The son confessed that earlier that day he was playing basketball at Chalan Kanoa District 3 when Aguon came and asked to follow him to his house to build a camp.<\/p>\n
Aguon brought the boy to an abandoned vehicle parked outside his house. The defendant then sexually abused the boy inside the abandoned vehicle.<\/p>\n
The father later checked on Aguon, but the suspect ran away.<\/p>\n
The boy was taken to the Commonwealth Health Center, where a doctor examined him. <\/p>\n
In October 2010, then-Superior Court Associate Judge Ramona Manglona imposed a two-year prison term on Aguon for sexual abuse of a minor girl.<\/p>\n
In October 2012, U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona Manglona slapped a 24-month prison term against Aguon for immigration document fraud.<\/p>\n
Aguon was also arrested and charged before for, among other cases, sexually abusing minor girls. He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and served prison term over the killing of a Kosraean man in Kannat Tabla in 2001. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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