{"id":259947,"date":"2017-09-11T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=259947"},"modified":"2017-09-11T06:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:06:04","slug":"man-51-allegedly-sexually-abused-minor-tinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-51-allegedly-sexually-abused-minor-tinian\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 51, allegedly sexually abused minor on Tinian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested Thursday morning a 51-year-old man at the San Jose Housing Turnkey on Tinian for allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl. <\/p>\n<p>Godfrey Sablan Mendiola was taken before Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho on Friday for bail hearing on charges of two counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree and one count of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree.<\/p>\n<p>Bail was set at $50,000 cash; preliminary hearing is on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant public defender Cindy Nesbit was appointed counsel for Mendiola. Assistant attorney general Teri Tenorio is prosecuting.  <\/p>\n<p>Police said a woman called the Tinian Department of Public Safety last Aug. 3 and asked for police assistance about a sexual abuse case.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged victim told the Division of Youth Services that Mendiola inappropriately touched her on two separate occasions, first between last April 2 and 8, and the second time last July 23.<\/p>\n<p>The girl confided about what happened to a friend. Police talked to the friend, who corroborated the girl\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>The girl told her mother about the matter. The mother then called the police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested Thursday morning a 51-year-old man at the San Jose Housing Turnkey on Tinian&#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":[4710,18261,15490,2036],"class_list":["post-259947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cindy-nesbit","tag-godfrey-sablan-mendiola","tag-teri-tenorio","tag-youth-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259947","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=259947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}