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« on: June 19, 2009, 09:41:55 PM »

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/06/19/0619garcia.html
AUSTIN
Woman accused in child sex assault extradited to U.S.
Mariana Garcia was brought to Austin from Mexico, officials said.


By Patrick George
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, June 19, 2009

Mariana Garcia, an Austin woman who along with her boyfriend is accused of videotaping the sexual assault of two children, was booked into Travis County Jail on Thursday after being extradited from Mexico, Deputy U.S. Marshal Hector Gomez said.

Garcia, 23, had been in custody in Mexico City since February, days after her boyfriend, 29-year-old Adrian Navarro, was arrested on Jan. 30 in Austin.

Navarro is charged with aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in prison, and promotion of child pornography, a second-degree felony that carries a maximum 20-year sentence. Garcia is charged with aggravated sexual assault.

She was formally extradited by the Mexican government earlier this week, Gomez said. She was flown to San Antonio before being brought to the Travis County Jail, Austin police child abuse unit Detective Joel Pridgeon said.

The extradition took several months because Garcia is a Mexican citizen, Pridgeon said. Navarro is a U.S. citizen, he said.

"The case is closed for the Austin Police Department," Pridgeon said. "Now it's at the district attorney's office."

An affidavit said that a detective went to Garcia's Austin apartment on Jan. 22 during a search for stolen property. The detective found a computer hard drive and photos determined to be child pornography.

Navarro told police that he got the pornography from a relative and had been meaning to throw it away, the affidavit said.

On one hard drive, detectives found more than 500 photographs and more than 15 videos of child pornography, the affidavit said. In one video, Garcia was seen holding a girl "that appears under the age of 2" while Navarro assaulted the child, according to arrest affidavits.

Pridgeon said the children remain in the custody of Child Protective Services.

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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2009, 12:41:05 AM »

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/06/19/0619garcia.html
AUSTIN
Woman accused in child sex assault extradited to U.S.
Mariana Garcia was brought to Austin from Mexico, officials said.


By Patrick George
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, June 19, 2009

Mariana Garcia, an Austin woman who along with her boyfriend is accused of videotaping the sexual assault of two children, was booked into Travis County Jail on Thursday after being extradited from Mexico, Deputy U.S. Marshal Hector Gomez said.

Garcia, 23, had been in custody in Mexico City since February, days after her boyfriend, 29-year-old Adrian Navarro, was arrested on Jan. 30 in Austin.

Navarro is charged with aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in prison, and promotion of child pornography, a second-degree felony that carries a maximum 20-year sentence. Garcia is charged with aggravated sexual assault.

She was formally extradited by the Mexican government earlier this week, Gomez said. She was flown to San Antonio before being brought to the Travis County Jail, Austin police child abuse unit Detective Joel Pridgeon said.

The extradition took several months because Garcia is a Mexican citizen, Pridgeon said. Navarro is a U.S. citizen, he said.

"The case is closed for the Austin Police Department," Pridgeon said. "Now it's at the district attorney's office."

An affidavit said that a detective went to Garcia's Austin apartment on Jan. 22 during a search for stolen property. The detective found a computer hard drive and photos determined to be child pornography.

Navarro told police that he got the pornography from a relative and had been meaning to throw it away, the affidavit said.

On one hard drive, detectives found more than 500 photographs and more than 15 videos of child pornography, the affidavit said. In one video, Garcia was seen holding a girl "that appears under the age of 2" while Navarro assaulted the child, according to arrest affidavits.

Pridgeon said the children remain in the custody of Child Protective Services.



Muffy, I will never be able to wrap my head around this perversion.  It not only makes me ill, it makes me angry. . . very angry.

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http://www.statesman.com/news/local/99-years-for-man-who-recorded-child-sex-227528.html
99 years for man who recorded child sex assault
Jury takes less than 30 minutes to convict Adrian Navarro of assaults on young girls.

By Steven Kreytak

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Published: 10:41 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010

Adrian Navarro: Austin tattoo artist, whose wife assisted, did not testify at sentencing.

An Austin tattoo artist who recorded himself on video engaging in sex acts with two young girls while his wife assisted was sentenced to 99 years in prison Wednesday.

Adrian Navarro showed no emotion when the punishment from a Travis County jury, which earlier in the day took less than 30 minutes to convict him, was read aloud in court.

"I am just happy he's not going to be on the street," prosecutor Joe Frederick said after court adjourned.

Navarro, 30, testified during the trial that making the 1-year-old girl and the 5-year-old girl perform sex acts on him was "a bad decision" and "a very ignorant mistake." He did not testify during the sentencing phase of the trial.

Austin police went to the South Austin apartment that Navarro shared with his wife, Mariana Garcia, in January 2009 in a burglary investigation. After Garcia gave them consent to search the apartment, they found pictures depicting child pornography, according to lawyers in the case. Navarro then told police in a recorded conversation that they could search his computer, lawyers said.

That's when they found the approximately six-minute video, taken a year earlier, showing the sex acts with the children, lawyers said.

After their apartment was searched, the couple fled to Tejupilco, Mexico , where Garcia, a Mexican citizen, has family. After Mexican authorities arrested them last year with the help of U.S. marshals, Navarro, a U.S. citizen, was deported and arrested when he arrived in San Antonio in January. Mexican authorities formally extradited Garcia.

Frederick told the jury during closing arguments that he is still troubled that the older girl that Navarro abused could be heard laughing on the recording. He also noted that while it was playing in court, the only dry eyes in the room were Navarro's.

"You need to punish him for... the years of therapy these kids are going to need," Frederick said, "for waking up in the middle of the night and thinking, 'Is this video out there?'"

During arguments in the punishment phase, defense lawyer Amanda McDaniel told the jury, "I am not going to stand up here and look you 12 in the eye and try to excuse the inexcusable," she said. "I am just going to make a simple plea for mercy."

Her plea was ignored.

Navarro received 99-year sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child and attempted aggravated sexual assault of a child, and a 20-year sentence for promotion of child pornography, all maximum sentences. The jury also assessed a $10,000 fine, the maximum, for each crime.

By law, the sentences will run together, visiting state District Judge Fred Moore said.

Navarro, 30, will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years.

Garcia, 24, is serving a 40-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in November to two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Navarro still faces two charges of burglary of a habitation, each punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

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