A DC Superior Court judge removed a child sex abuse defendant from GPS monitoring.
The defendant is accused of threatening an 11-year-old girl with a knife and sexually assaulting her on May 2, 2021.
He was charged soon after with first-degree child sex abuse and first-degree sex abuse while armed. A judge released him with GPS monitoring and he has been on it ever since.
Defense attorney Damon Catacalos asked Judge Maribeth Raffinan to lift the GPS monitoring requirement during a Jan. 28 hearing. Catacolos said his client has been perfectly compliant with his release conditions and that the GPS is painful when he is at his construction job.
The prosecutor made no objection and Judge Raffinan granted the request.
Parties are slated to reconvene for a status hearing on March 22.
