{"id":798929,"date":"2019-08-27T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=370627"},"modified":"2019-08-27T18:12:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T00:12:46","slug":"summit-county-child-predator-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-child-predator-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County child predator sentenced to 10 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hector Reyes-Martinez, 34.<\/strong>
Courtesy Summit County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Hector Reyes-Martinez was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a felony charge of sexual exploitation of a child during an emotional hearing at the Summit County Justice Center on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Reyes-Martinez, 34, was arrested in January after an investigation by the Dillon Police Department revealed a pattern of sexual assault over the past several years.<\/p>\n

Detectives began investigating the case in December after a forensic nurse examiner at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco reported a child was in the emergency room for a sexual assault examination.<\/p>\n

During a series of interviews at the Treetop Child Advocacy Center and subsequent follow up conversations, police discovered that Reyes-Martinez assaulted multiple children from about 2013 to 2018, according to police reports. He was arrested and charged with felony counts of sexual assault on a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor among others charges.<\/p>\n

In late June, Reyes-Martinez accepted a plea agreement admitting to sexual exploitation of a child, a class 3 felony. At the sentencing hearing Monday, prosecutor Jake Lilly said the only reason a plea agreement was on the table in the first place was to protect the victims from having to relive at trial their traumatizing experiences. Lilly continued to slam Reyes-Martinez for a continuous lack of accountability for his actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven today, and throughout this (pre-sentence investigation) he\u2019s continued to argue the fantasy that he didn\u2019t quite do this,\u201d Lilly said. At the hearing, Reyes-Martinez admitted to touching the named victim in the case though continued to deny other details. \u201cThere were years of touching, years of abuse, and years of terror from the threats and emotional manipulation. Even today, he\u2019s trying to minimize it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Lilly, two others also spoke on behalf of the prosecution, including a victim and the mother of a victim. The mother spoke first, offering a statement about the emotional impacts the assaults have had on her child \u2014 including frequent anxiety and panic attacks \u2014 before eventually offering Reyes-Martinez her forgiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard for (them) to accept love and happiness,\u201d she said. \u201c(They) feel it\u2019s their fault everything has changed in their life \u2026 and I just want to tell you I also forgive you because I am not God. God is the one who will judge all our sins throughout life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin Jensen, Reyes-Martinez\u2019s attorney, also spoke on his client\u2019s behalf arguing that his behavior was in part driven by his own childhood victimization and lack of formal education and that a probationary sentence would be more suitable to allow Reyes-Martinez to seek treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would simply ask to try and give Mr. Reyes-Martinez the tools to deal with his past issues and formulate a plan so he can continue in the future,\u201d Jensen said.<\/p>\n

Finally, Reyes-Martinez spoke for himself with the help of a court translator, asking only for some form of forgiveness from the court and the victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m asking God for forgiveness a thousand times,\u201d Reyes-Martinez said. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m asking (the victims) for forgiveness and you. I ask you for a new opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Judge Mark Thompson lauded the victims for their strength in speaking out before turning to the defendant. Thompson said any mitigating factors in the case were far outweighed by the aggravating factors \u2014 including the ages of the children and the drawn-out nature of the assaults.<\/p>\n

Ultimately Thompson sentenced Reyes-Martinez to 10 years in prison on top of a three-year parole period. Reyes-Martinez was given credit for 198 days served.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour offense occurred over an extended period, included multiple victims and was intentional,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the result of intoxication or a one-time misbehavior. It was persistent, categorically wrong, and you knew it. \u2026 The acts you completed that lead to this were monstrous. This will put an end to that cycle, and I hope over the next several years you have time to think and learn and do the right thing in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hector Reyes-Martinez, 34.Courtesy Summit County Sheriff\u2019s Office BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Hector Reyes-Martinez was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a felony charge of sexual exploitation of a child during an emotional hearing at the Summit County Justice Center on Monday afternoon. Reyes-Martinez, 34, was arrested in January after an investigation by the Dillon Police Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:34:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}