The school Ricardo Arroyo attended in Western Massachusetts has despatched out an electronic mail to everybody who was there when he was, saying that the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts “continues to monitor the circumstances” across the investigations into the district legal professional hopeful.
“Over the last two weeks, it has come to MCLA’s attention that alum and candidate for the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) District Attorney’s race, Ricardo Arroyo ’11, is under scrutiny related to allegations of sexual assault,” the school wrote to individuals who’d graduated from 2007 by means of 2015. “While the College continues to monitor the circumstances surrounding the District Attorney’s race as information becomes available, we felt it important to reach out to members of our community who were at MCLA from Fall 2007 through Spring 2011.”
An MCLA spokeswoman informed the Herald that this kind of electronic mail is regular apply for high-profile cases of sexual-assault allegations towards alums.
The existence of two sexual-assault investigations into Arroyo in 2005 and 2007 not too long ago surfaced, in the end inflicting town councilor to lose most of his main endorsements within the district legal professional race and, quickly, his management spots on the council. Arroyo denies wrongdoing.
“As I have maintained from the beginning, I have never, as a minor or ever, sexually assaulted anyone,” Arroyo mentioned in a press release. “The individual from 2007 is on the record saying I never assaulted her. And I requested today in Superior Court the records that I know will show the allegations from 2005 were determined to be unfounded.”
The MCLA electronic mail stays obscure and customarily not particular to Arroyo in any other case, with the school laying out its course of for responding to sexual-assault allegations there.
“When allegations are made against individuals no longer at the College, we will assess any current affiliation with MCLA,” the letter from the North Adams school continues. “If the allegations are found more likely than not to have occurred, or what is known as the preponderance of evidence standard, recommended actions will be presented to the president and/or the appropriate vice president.”
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