A man arrested in October for allegedly forcing a woman he had just met to perform a sex act on him pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday, but will have to register as a sex offender.
At the time of the arrest, East Hampton Town police said Fabian A. Camacho-Quiorz, then 33, had forced himself upon a 60-year-old woman in an East Hampton house on Sept. 29. The woman’s name was not released due to the nature of the allegation, and police also declined to release the location of the incident to protect her identity. They did say that she knew her attacker.
Mr. Camacho-Quiorz, who lives in East Hampton, was charged with a criminal sexual act in the first degree, a felony, and criminal obstruction of breathing, a misdemeanor, on Oct. 11. He pleaded guilty last week to a reduced charge of sexual abuse in the second degree, a misdemeanor.
According to New York State law, a person is guilty of sexual abuse in the second degree when he subjects another person to sexual contact and that person is incapable of consent by reason of some factor other than being under 17 years old. Criminal sexual act in the first degree is levied if the defendant engages in oral or anal sexual conduct with another person by forcible compulsion, or with a person who is incapable of consent.
Mr. Camacho-Quiorz was never indicted on the felony charge, however, and the county district attorney’s office proposed the plea deal, which included a 90-day jail sentence. He had been in jail for two months and a week, unable to make $60,000 bail, and has now been released for time served.
As part of the plea bargain, he was fined $705 and must register as a sex offender; the level is yet to be determined. A five-year stay-away order of protection was issued for the victim.
Mr. Camacho-Quiorz’s attorney, Sandra Melendez, could not be reached by press time.
