(26 Aug 2024)
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Concord, New Hampshire – 26 August 2024
1. Wide of Merrimack County Superior Court Clerk Jennifer Uhouse walking into the courthouse at the beginning of Victor Malavet’s trial
2. Some of the charges being read at the beginning of a criminal trial against Malavet
UPSOUND (English) Jennifer Uhouse, Court Clerk: "Victor Malavet knowingly engaged in sexual penetration with N.M. when Malavet was in a position of authority over N.M. and used the authority to coerce N.M. to submit under the following circumstances: One, when it had supervisory authority over N.M. By virtue of being incarcerated in a juvenile detention facility when Malavet engaged in sexual intercourse with N.M. in a storage room."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Audriana Mekula, New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General:
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"He raped a child. A child locked away in a detention facility, isolated from her family and the outside world. He used his authority as a youth counselor at (Youth Detention Services Unit) YDSU, and his control over her daily grades, her restrictions and her special privileges to take what he wanted. At the end of this trial the evidence will prove to you, beyond a reasonable doubt, that this defendant committed each count of aggravated felonious sexual assault with which he is charged."
4. Malavet in the courtroom
5. Defense attorney Maya Dominguez prepares to present opening arguments
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Maya Dominguez, Defense Attorney:
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"She (the victim) had her dad who visited her very frequently – ten times in November alone. She had her grandmother who also visited. She had her lawyer who she could call and have private conversations with and who visited her. She even had a guardian ad litem, someone appointed by the court to look out for the best interests of the child. … did not tell anyone that she was being sexually assaulted because she wasn’t, and she wasn’t having any sort of physical contact with Victor."
7. Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Daniel I. St. Hilaire during the trial
8. Malavet and his attorneys during the trial
STORYLINE:
The first criminal trial arising from a five-year investigation into allegations of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center is underway.
The case involves a different state-run facility, however.
Victor Malavet of Gilford is one of nine former state workers charged in connection with the attorney general’s broad criminal probe of the Sununu Youth Services Center.
His trial started Monday on allegations that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old 12 times in 2001.
Prosecutors say the 62-year-old Malavet started paying special attention to the girl soon after she arrived, coercing her into sex in a candy storage room and other locations.
His attorney says the alleged victim – now 39 – is lying.
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