Ex-conscientious Omar Torres set for preliminary hearings

San Jose – Omar Torres, the former counselor of the city who gave up last fall after it was accused of sexual abuse of a minor relative In the 90’s, the officially guilty of Monday, a key hearing for the end of next month, will decide if he will go to the trial.

Torres appeared briefly in the judge of the upper court of Santa Clara County, Cynthia Seveny, in the courtroom at the justice hall in San Jose, where he entered the plea. This allowed seven to establish once from April 28 for Torres’s preliminary examination, a procedure in which a judge hears evidence to determine if the accusations are substantial enough to justify a jury trial.

Torres’s lawyer, Nelson Mcelmurry, indicated about a month ago his intention to seek a plea agreement in this case, telling this news organization that “Omar demonstrated from the beginning that he wants to take responsibility and bring peace to the lives of those he affected.”

The setting of a preliminary examination does not prevent Mcelmurry and the district lawyer’s office from continuing the conversations and reaching a potential plea negotiated before the court date. If the accusations are environmentally friendly, theoretically they could reach an agreement at almost any point before a jury verdict.

Torres remains in arrest at the main prison of the county where he was detained from his November 5 arrest. He faces two charges of child sexual aggression offenses and a number of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor under 14 years.

Torres resigned a few hours before his arrest; his chair has since then was completed intermediate by businessman Carl SalasWaiting for a special April choice for a permanent successor.

Criminal charges against Torres involve alleged documents of November 25, 1999, about a month after Torres turned 18. A report by the San Jose Accomparent Police Department presents charges that Torres abused the victim reported a few years before it, starting when the victim was 4 years old, but when Torres was also a minor.

The report reported contacted the police on November 4 last year as a result of a scandal related to a separate investigation of the department Analyzing other charges of Torres’s sexual interest in minors. This probe, which did not give criminal charges, appeared publicly on October 3, when Torres was detained and interrogated by San Jose detectives.

A statement of search mandate from the previous investigation states that Torres asked the police to investigate a man from Chicago, who would have extorted it to keep a sexual test from his partner and colleagues. But the investigation revealed sexual explicit text exchanges from 2022 with the man in which they share sexual fantasies that included Torres who describes the genitals of an 11 -year -old boy with whom he has a family -type relationship.

One of the greatest messages was in the middle of the discussion of a sexual meeting with several partners, Torres asking the man if “you have Homies under 18.” Torres said at the time that messages were part of a fantastic role play that was then exploited by the man in Chicago.

According to detectives, after the accusations of abuse of children in November, the victim were reported, were reported by a telephone call monitored by the police in which Torres acknowledged that he had abused the victim. Torres also said at the phone call that he was the victim of child sexual abuse and suggested that the alleged aggression were a consequence of his own trauma.