Hunter
01/18/21
A Cedar Rapids man who is facing over 40 years in prison on charges of sexual abuse in 2018 has had his case management conference delayed by a week.
Arrest reports indicate that in the early morning hours of November 18th of that year, then-31 year old Carlos Hivento of 15th Street Southeast is alleged to have engaged in the acts with a 19 year old woman in an apartment stairwell next to the Fieldhouse Bar and at the Iowa House Hotel.
The victim was in an incapacitated state and unable to give consent.
Hivento is also alleged to have used his cellphone to take videos of himself engaged in the acts without the victim knowing she was being recorded. Those videos clearly show both his and the victims genitalia.
Hivento’s trial date has been scheduled and delayed a handful of times. It was originally schedule for June 18th, 2019, then moved to October 1st, December 10th, then March 3rd 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was moved again to June 9th, then September 15th.
Trial was supposed to happen tomorrow, but was delayed again to March 9th back on November 13th.Judge Lars Anderson rescheduled Hivento’s case management conference from January 15th to this Friday afternoon.
He has been charged with four counts of third degree sexual abuse, and two counts of invasion of privacy. If convicted on the charges Hivento could be sentenced to up to 44 years in prison.