Woman Who Accused Suffolk Da Candidate Ricardo Arroyo Of Sexual Assault Breaks Silence Lies. It Makes Me Sick

The woman said she was so shocked by Arroyo’s response that she felt compelled to speak out. “It makes me feel sick, sick to my stomach,” she said in an interview Monday night, shortly after being contacted by the Globe. “I see so many people continue to support him without knowing more. As a potential DA, women are not going to feel safe calling his office. Their cases will not be heard. … All these people will be afraid to come forward.” The woman said she stands by everything she claimed to police about Arroyo in 2005: the forced sex, the mental manipulation, the threats she said he sent her. She said she didn’t pursue the matter with prosecutors years ago because it seemed to her that John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science officials heard her concerns and took immediate action: She didn’t see Arroyo at school for the rest of the school year. year. “It was traumatic,” she said. “It was easier to finish school and do what I needed to do. … I just wanted to finish high school and go to college.” Arroyo said none of the allegations are true and that he was never told about them at the time. “These are serious allegations and, as I said before, they are false,” Arroyo said in a statement Tuesday night. His statements — when he first spoke to the Globe, at the press conference after the Globe story was published and on Tuesday after his accuser spoke — contradicted information contained in a police report, as well as statements from law enforcement officials. law’s Arroyo said his attorney has sought an emergency order in Suffolk Superior Court that would give him access to investigative records, which he believes will show the 2005 allegations were unfounded. “Instead of taking my word for it, I want the facts to be public and for people to see the determination that law enforcement had made at that time,” Arroyo said in the statement. “If the Supreme Court gives me access to these records, I believe they will prove that law enforcement determined these allegations to be unfounded.” Arroyo also shared several responses to records requests he made to the Boston Police Department, which denied him access to the records, citing privacy laws that protect victims of sexual assault. One response notes that the word “unfounded” appears in the records, but provides no information about the context in which the word appears. Boston police investigated two sets of sexual assault complaints against Arroyo: one in 2005, the other in 2007. In the second case, a 16-year-old girl told police she had been drinking at a party and believed Arroyo, then 19, she may have been raped. That investigation was closed without criminal charges, and last week, the woman who made the original allegation said Arroyo did not rape her. The revelations about Arroyo have roiled city politics and the Suffolk DA race in which Arroyo faces incumbent District Attorney Kevin Hayden in a Sept. 6 primary. On Friday, a fellow alderman filed a motion for an injunction demanding the release of city records related to the investigations, and on Monday, the City Council president stripped Arroyo of his vice presidency and two key chairmanships. Former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III, a Democrat from Massachusetts’ Fourth District, dropped his endorsement of Arroyo for the DA, along with the Iron Workers union. But other Arroyo supporters, including Rep. Ayanna Pressley, dodged questions about him, saying they were waiting for more information to be released. Police reports obtained by the Globe detail the beginning of the two sexual assault investigations. Both Boston police and the DA’s office confirmed that the searches were underway. After the initial Globe story was published, Arroyo addressed the public, accompanied by a lawyer who had represented the woman from the 2007 case. Through the lawyer, the woman suggested the documents were leaked as part of a political hit and endorsed Arroyo for the DA. She said Arroyo did not assault her. Then on Monday, the woman in the 2005 case contacted the Globe and spoke on condition of anonymity. The Globe is not identifying the survivors of the alleged sexual assault. While she declined to discuss the details of the alleged assaults, the woman said what she told police in 2005 was true. “Yes,” he said in an interview, “he did.” The woman also said she has not spoken to anyone from either campaign. Police documents obtained by the Globe show the woman, then 17, told school officials in November 2005 that Arroyo, whom she considered a good friend, forced her to perform oral sex several times in late 2004 and early 2005. , while they were juniors in high school. School officials documented the allegations and referred the matter to the Boston Police Department’s Sexual Assault Unit. Boston City Councilman Ricardo Arroyo in July opened the district attorney’s campaign office in Jamaica Plain. The event was attended by friends, several politicians and family, including his father Felix D. Arroyo, right. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff The woman said Arroyo was verbally and mentally abusive and that she was afraid to speak out because she knew he came from a prominent political family. Arroyo’s father, Felix Arroyo, was then a Boston city councilman and former School Board chairman. She kept the alleged attacks secret for months until, she said, she believed Arroyo had hacked her e-mail account. She said he also sent her threats. He said he provided police with two e-mails he said were from Arroyo. No e-mail, however, has the name of the sender. Both are dated Nov. 2, 2005, the day before police filed their first report, which mentions threatening emails. “You got it KYLA is coming,” reads the subject line of one of the e-mails, which the Globe obtained along with police reports. The Globe did not previously release the e-mails themselves because the documents do not name the sender and the woman had not yet spoken to the Globe and directly shared her belief that Arroyo sent them. On Monday the woman said the e-mails were those listed in the police report. “a [expletive] you deserve no respect and hopefully you will die on your own,” one of the e-mails reads. “Watch back [expletive] and understand yours, you WILL NOT make it through this school year.” Arroyo said Tuesday that he did not write or send those e-mails. “The language in these emails is abhorrent and is nothing I would or would ever say about any person in written or verbal communication,” he said in a statement released to the public. Arroyo also released a Police Department response to his records request, in which the agency says it found no “emails from Ricardo Arroyo” to either woman. The woman said she went to school administrators and the police the day after she received the e-mails. The next day, Arroyo was not at school, she said. As far as she knew, he didn’t return to school for the rest of the year, though she did see him briefly the following school year after he had graduated and returned to visit her former teachers. The woman said she found it hard to believe Arroyo’s claim that she never knew she was making allegations against him. Arroyo told the Globe that he dropped out of school to take care of his mother, who was suffering from health problems. He said he had never been disciplined by the school and did not leave because of the 2005 allegations, which he said he did not even know about until this month. He said he left the school in 2007 of his own volition. A police report from the 2005 case says a detective spoke to Arroyo, his mother and an attorney representing him. Arroyo said he never spoke to the police and the lawyer represented him only in academic matters. Boston school officials declined to comment on how the assault allegation was handled. the director at the time, Joel Stembridge, has not responded to multiple requests for comment. Arroyo is listed as a senior in the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 yearbooks. Boston Public Schools records show that Arroyo did not officially leave the school until June 30, 2007, more than a year and a half after the 2005 allegation. Arroyo later earned his GED. Once the woman came forward, Boston police referred her case to prosecutors, who investigated and closed the case after eight months without criminal charges, according to Hayden’s office. In both the 2005 and 2007 investigations, Hayden’s office said, the only suspect — Arroyo — was notified. The woman from the 2005 case said Monday she doesn’t remember exactly what happened to end the criminal case. “We didn’t press charges,” he said. “They made it easy when he disappeared.” The woman said that in the years since the alleged attacks, she had tried to put the trauma behind her. When the Globe first began looking into Arroyo’s past, a reporter delivered a letter to her home, asking if she wanted to discuss the matter. The woman did not respond, he said Monday, because she wanted to put the incident behind her. “I just want to live my life and move on,” she said. But seeing Arroyo deny everything in the week since the story broke, he said, changed his mind. She said she felt sick and scared — not for herself, but for other victims who would be relying on Arroyo to prosecute their abusers if elected DA. “I don’t want him to think I’m afraid of him,” she said. “I’m afraid of what could happen if he gets into a position of power.” Andrea Estes can be reached at [email protected] Evan Allen can be reached at [email protected] Follow her on…

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