Records show multitude of calls, texting
Young girls connected to defendant's phone
By Bobbi Mlynar
Monday, August 27, 2007
The Emporia police detective who led the investigation into allegations of illegal sex with children testified Monday afternoon in the trial against the 32-year-old man she had arrested.The trial entered its third week today.
Raul Manuel Magallanez Jr. has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl, as well as about 60 counts of indecent liberties with minors, sodomizing minors, furnishing alcohol with illicit intent to minors, and one charge of aggravated intimidation of a witness
Police detective Lisa Sage’s testimony included a more in-depth look at the contents of Magallanez’s cell phone, as provided on a disk from the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory in Kansas City, which studied the phone and submitted the report on its contents.
Sage said she had downloaded the Heart of America disk onto her computer to access the e-mails and video clips taken from the phone.
Assistant County Attorney Amy Aranda asked Sage to identify the girls and boys shown in photographs. At least two of the girls, both under 16, were shown in a sexual pose, with one girl’s hand on the other girl’s breast.
Sage scanned through pages of phone number lists printed from the cell phone’s address book, and identified many of the approximately 380 numbers as belonging to boys and girls under 16. Some of the photos were taken at the defendant’s home; others were taken at Emporia State University and other sites.
Cell phone records showed that in October, November and early December, sometimes more than three hours daily was spent talking with alleged victims on the cell phone. On one occasion, the phone was in use more than five hours in one day. Text messages also were exchanged routinely, with a high of 126 text messages in one day.
Defense attorney Julia Spainhour asked Sage if the records would show whether one of Magallanez’s male friends had used his telephone to call one of the alleged victims or their friends. Sage agreed that could be possible.
Spainhour also asked whether one of the other friends could have taken the videos that were pulled from the phone. Sage agreed.