240 Rape Charges Against 1 Man , Charlie Vazquez

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Charlie Vazquez

KISSIMMEE --
An Osceola County man has been arrested on 240 different rape charges after he told deputies he thought his underage girlfriend was a legal adult.


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Deputies said the charges stem from Vazquez, 25, having sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend.

Vazquez told investigators he thought she was a legally emancipated teenager, a legal process that would make her a legal adult.

Deputies found out Friday that was not the case, and the teen had never been declared an adult.


Vazquez was locked up on $1.2 million bond -- $5,000 for each rape charge.

http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news...tml?hpt=ju_bn4

[AngelFire]

Vazquez told investigators he thought she was a legally emancipated teenager, a legal process that would make her a legal adult.

That's a new one. I will give him 5 points for originality, an subtract 100 for being a pervy mofo

[LoKi4778]

I am, by no means, condoning the May-October relationship, but really? 240 counts? Does not the Florida justice system have enough shit on their plate than to prosecute what was, in all reality, probably a consensual relationship? I'd like to know who reported him or how he was found out. Was it the girls parents, or did she rat him out after a lovers' spat?

[Aena]

Isn't the legal age of consent in Florida 16?

I have a problem with girls or guys that lie and then it gets the boyfriend/girlfriend in trouble. I lied when I was younger, I was 15 and said I was 17, I would have been horrified if someone would have gotten in trouble over me lying to them. Nowadays it seems like people to ask for paperwork about everything, if he truly believed she was emancipated, should he go to jail for 240 years because he didn't ask for paperwork? I think the girls in these situations should be in just as much trouble for lying, well not just as much, but some trouble also.

I know of one case, guy met a girl at a bar. You have to be 21 to be in a bar, so he thought he was safe, they started dating she never admits she is not what she claimed to be. Come to find out she had a fake ID and was using it to get into bars, she was really 16. He was arrested, charged with rape of a minor and now has to register as a sex offender. The girl walks away scott-free even though her lies caused all of it. Hell I even thought she was 21, she sure didn't look or act 16 and I never asked her for an ID, I even let her drink at my house. All believing she was over the legal age. I seen her in bars numerous times, like I said when someone is in a bar, the presumption is that person is legally entitled to be there.

I just think in some cases where the guy or gal can prove they honestly were tricked into believing something that wasn't true about the age of their sexual partner. Something else needs to be done besides ruining that persons life forever. Plus like I said, the lying girl or guy should also face some consequences, just like anyone who would falsely claim rape.

[DamagedGoods]

This guy gets 240 counts of rape, Doug Hutchison gets media interviews and a potential reality show.

[LoKi4778]

This guy gets 240 counts of rape, Doug Hutchison gets media interviews and a potential reality show.

Yeah, but mommy and daddy approve, cuz he's got MONEY... That dude was MY age when she was born. That would be like me marrying my newborn daughter...eeewwwwww...

[Krystal]

I'm sure that age 16 is age of consent if it isn't even as young as age 14, some states still go by 14. I think the charges may be because he is more than 4 years older than her, a lot of states can charge on that fact even if the minor is age of consent, it can be used until the minor reaches age 18.

But, 240 counts, did they keep track? I personally do not have any clue how many times I have had sex in any particular 2 year span. Is the number just a guess, then how in the world will they prove all the counts?

[Obsolete]

If she lied and told him that she was emancipated then she's the one that should be in trouble, not him. That's like letting someone borrow your car and then reporting it stolen. Not cool.

[Valasca]

Age of consent is 18 per http://www.age-of-consent.info/states/Florida

[Obsolete]

Age of consent is 18 per http://www.age-of-consent.info/states/Florida

That doesn't apply if she's emancipated...which in this case she isn't but according to him she told him she was.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A case against a Kissimmee man who thought his teenage girlfriend was a legally emancipated adult ended quietly this month after prosecutors agreed to drop the last of 240 rape charges.

Rather than spending life in prison, Charlie Vazquez accepted a plea bargain that gave him a year of probation and credit for 114 days served in the Osceola County Jail, records show.
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Never accused of sexual violence, Vazquez, 25, was candid and cooperative in June after he and his girlfriend were stopped for questioning about taking their pit bull to the Amber Inn, a motel in the county's west U.S. Highway 192 tourist corridor, arrest records state.

During questioning, the 16-year-old girl told a sheriff's deputy that a judge declared her months earlier to be an emancipated minor with the legal rights of an adult.

The teen's mother told deputies the same thing and stated she approved of Vazquez living with her daughter in another motel on the tourist strip, records show.

A background check ended in handcuffs for the couple when deputies learned the teen had been reported as a runaway by the Children's Home Society in Orange County. Contrary to her claims of emancipation, she was still classified as a minor.

After Vazquez and the teen admitted having sex twice a day during the previous 120 days, deputies charged him under state rape laws with 240 counts of unlawful sex activity with a 16 or 17-year-old victim by someone 24 years old or older.

Had he been convicted on those charges, Vazquez could have been sentenced to life in prison.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...0,955454.story

[Aena]

He is lucky, she told the police the same thing and her mother confirmed it, wow.