Jasper man charged with sexual battery

Jasper — Last Friday, police served a warrant for the arrest of Dayvi W. Aleman-Cortez, 35, of Circle Pine Drive, Jasper, on charges of sexual battery of a teenage girl.

The Dubois County Circuit Court issued the warrant for Aleman-Cortez’s arrest based on an investigation into allegations he inappropriately touched a teenage girl. The investigation was launched August 3 when the crime was reported to the Jasper Police station. 

Aleman-Cortez is charged with Class D felony sexual battery since the incidents began in May —   the new Indiana criminal codes went into effect July 1. 

He was booked into the Dubois County Security Center at 6:50 p.m on Friday.

From the Indiana Code:

C 35-42-4-8 Version a
Sexual battery
     Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2014. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2014.
Sec. 8. (a) A person who, with intent to arouse or satisfy the person’s own sexual desires or the sexual desires of another person:
(1) touches another person when that person is:
(A) compelled to submit to the touching by force or the imminent threat of force; or
(B) so mentally disabled or deficient that consent to the touching cannot be given; or
(2) touches another person’s genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast when that person is unaware that the touching is occurring;
commits sexual battery, a Class D felony.