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CALIFORNIA, June 27: A Nepali engineer has been convicted of rape of his adopted daughter in California in the US.

District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced on Thursday that a Yolo County jury convicted 42-year-old Ajay Kumar Dev, a former Davis resident, of serial molest and rape of his adopted daughter. The violations occurred between January 1999 and December 2004.

Dev had immigrated to the Davis area with his parents when he was 13. He is a graduate of Chico State and worked for the California Water Resources Board as an engineer and was active in the Davis Nepali community.

In 1999 he and his wife brought the victim, a distant relative of Ajay, who at the time was 15 years old, to the United States. She was to live with them and go to school here ostensibly to give her a better education.

The victim had been officially adopted by Dev and his wife in December of 1999 and, according to the victim´s testimony, Dev began inappropriately touching her within the first couple of weeks of her arrival and later progressed to forced sexual assault and rape on a weekly basis. The assaults continued after the victim turned 18 and was attending Sacramento City College but still lived in the Dev household.

The victim moved out of the home in December of 2004, and Mr. Dev continued to try to sexually abuse the victim and even offered to pay her to do so. Mr Dev threatened to get a gun and shoot himself and the victim if she didn´t allow him to continue to abuse her, which ultimately led to the victim reporting the situation to law enforcement.

Detective Mark Hermann of the Davis Police Department was assigned the case and while interviewing the victim he had her call the defendant on the phone. During the recorded phone call, the victim engaged him in a conversation about the abusive relationship and whether she should tell her school counselor that he, Mr Dev, was the cause of her three abortions. What ensued was a conversation where Mr. Dev admitted the abuse and ultimately tried to talk the victim out of reporting it.

A search warrant that was served on the Dev home in Davis found child pornography on the computers. This confirmed the victim´s story that Dev had shown her such pornography prior to some of the assaults.

The case against Dev was not filed until two years later, however, because the victim had returned to Nepal to attend her sister´s wedding and was imprisoned there on charges brought about by a relative of the defendant´s alleging that she had the wrong date of birth on her passport.

After court proceedings in Nepal that lasted a year and a half, she was finally issued a new passport and, with help from law enforcement and the US Embassy in Nepal, she was able to return to the United States, at which time charges were filed. While she had been in Nepal, Dev had traveled to Nepal and phoned her telling her to drop the charges and not to return to the United States.

The trial lasted for two months. After the jury deliberated for one week, Dev was convicted of 76 felony counts including 23 counts of forcible rape; 23 counts of forcible sexual assault; 27 counts of lewd acts with a minor; and 3 counts of attempting to dissuade a witness.

The jury hung on three of the counts and returned not guilty verdicts on 13 others. Mr Dev, who was remanded to custody without bail after having been free on bail for the three years it took to get the case to trial, faces between 72 and 392 years in prison. Sentencing is set for August 7, 2009 in Dept. 2 before Judge Timothy L Fall who presided over the trial.

 
Published on 2009-06-27 23:30:25

 

source: myrepublica.com

Hardline Islamist militiamen in Somalia have stoned to death a man accused of raping and murdering a woman.

 

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The trial lasted for two months. After the jury deliberated for one week, Mr. Dev was convicted of 76 felony counts including 23 counts of forcible rape; 23 counts of forcible sexual assault; 27 counts of lewd acts with a minor; and 3 counts of attempting to dissuade a witness.

The jury hung on three of the counts and returned not guilty verdicts on 13 others. Mr. Dev, who was remanded to custody without bail after having been free on bail for the three years it took to get the case to trial, faces between 72 and 392 years in prison. Sentencing is set for August 7, 2009 in Dept. 2 before Judge Timothy L. Fall who presided over the trial.
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Incarceration of a convict for 72 to 392 years would literally yield this kind of prison image (see image below).

PS : I hope the victim fully recovers from the trauma of being
subjected to sexual assault for almost half a decade by the adoptive
father.

Does anyone know if this guy has a brother named Sanjay Dev?

Is there any updated news from the local newspaper or the people from California?

Press Release

Father Convicted of Serial Molest of Adopted Daughter

(Woodland, CA) – June 26, 2009 District Attorney Jeff Reisig
announced that on Thursday afternoon a Yolo County jury convicted 42
year old Ajay Kumar Dev, a former Davis resident, of the serial molest
and rape of his adopted daughter. The violations occurred between
January 1999 and December 2004.

Mr. Dev, a native of the
country of Nepal, had immigrated to the Davis area with his parents
when he was 13. He is a graduate of Chico State and worked for the
California Water Resources Board as an engineer and was active in the
Davis Nepali community. In 1999 he and his wife brought the victim, a
distant relative of Mr. Dev’s, who at the time was 15 years old, to the
United States. She was to live with them and go to school here
ostensibly to give her a better education.

The victim had been
officially adopted by Mr. Dev and his wife in December of 1999 and,
according to the victim’s testimony, Mr. Dev began inappropriately
touching her within the first couple of weeks of her arrival and later
progressed to forced sexual assault and rape on a weekly basis. The
assaults continued after the victim turned 18 and was attending
Sacramento City College but still lived in the Dev household. The
victim moved out of the home in December of 2004, and Mr. Dev continued
to try to sexually abuse the victim and even offered to pay her to do
so. Mr. Dev threatened to get a gun
and shoot himself and the
victim if she didn’t allow him to continue to abuse her, which
ultimately led to the victim reporting the situation to law
enforcement.

Detective Mark Hermann of the Davis Police Dept.
was assigned the case and while interviewing the victim he had her call
the defendant on the phone. During the recorded phone call, the victim
engaged him in a conversation about the abusive relationship and
whether she should tell her school counselor that he, Mr. Dev, was the
cause of her three abortions. What ensued was a conversation where Mr.
Dev admitted the abuse and ultimately tried to talk the victim out of
reporting it.

A search warrant that was served on the Dev home
in Davis found child pornography on the computers. This confirmed the
victim’s story that Mr. Dev had shown her such pornography prior to
some of the assaults. The case against Mr. Dev was not filed until two
years later, however, because the victim had returned to Nepal to
attend her sister’s wedding and was imprisoned there on charges brought
about by a relative of the defendant’s alleging that she had the wrong
date of birth on her passport. After court proceedings in Nepal that
lasted a year and a half, she was finally issued a new passport and,
with help from law enforcement and the U.S. Embassy in Nepal, she was
able to
return to the United States, at which time charges were
filed. While she had been in Nepal, Mr. Dev had traveled to Nepal and
phoned her telling her to drop the charges and not to return to the
United States.

The trial lasted for two months. After the jury
deliberated for one week, Mr. Dev was convicted of 76 felony counts
including 23 counts of forcible rape; 23 counts of forcible sexual
assault; 27 counts of lewd acts with a minor; and 3 counts of
attempting to dissuade a witness. The jury hung on three of the counts
and returned not guilty verdicts on 13 others. Mr. Dev, who was
remanded to custody without bail after having been free on bail for the
three years it took to get the case to trial, faces between 72 and 392
years in prison. Sentencing is set for August 7, 2009 in Dept. 2 before
Judge Timothy L. Fall who presided over the trial. For more
information, contact Ann Hurd at (530) 666-8180.

I got the link too,

http://www.yolocounty.org/Index.aspx?page=26&recordid=823&returnURL=%2findex.aspx%3fpage%3d510

We have to take this guy to Nepal and have four big dogs do the same thing he did it to that poor girl.

americanboy,

Dont worry he will get the bigger dogs with lot more bigger dongs here in US itself. I am glad he was tried here. He could have easily bribed people in Nepal to avoid Jail time.

I hope he finds a boyfriend with a foot long dong on the first day of his Jail term.

Sid

Good Luck Ajay whatever Dev while being a b*tch of niggaz in US prison

I hope ANA 2009 conveners would comment on Ajay Dev, a convicted serial Molester, rapist as their web site posted his name till last Sunday as co-convener. They have removed his name now but not enough until they comment on him..........

I hope someone would raise question about him (rapist, molester) during ANA function as i would not be there this year.

There is a man with his face circled in red on this blog, unfortunately the wording around it is in Nepali and I do not understand it...  Please be aware that this particular picture is NOT the Ajay Dev who was found guilty.  The man further down who is holding a certificate and the man in the pictures of NAFCA members IS the correct person.

 

 

Yes, his brother is Sanjay

I am in California.  What would you like to know?

I went to school with Ajaya. He was one class junior than me at St Xaviers. He would have done his SLC in the year 1985 if he had stayed in Nepal. He came to the USA with his family before even getting into the sixth grade. His brother was the class of 1981 I believe. I met Ajaya in 1985 Dashain party that was held at UC Davis. I think he should get the maximum sentence possible for the crimes he committed.

I hope he knows what they do to a pedophile in US prisons.

I am wondering how come his wife or any member of the family never came to know about the rape which had been happening in his/their home from the past five years. Are they just ignorant or pretenders?

Also wanna know how his wife/ family reacting to this?

This is the email sent by ajay dev,.. too bad he wont be able to send emails again

 

Ajay Dev to me
show details Jun 11 Reply

 

CHANGE    -     DELIVER
ChangeANA@gmail.com
Dear friends and well wishers of ANA,
Namaste.
My name is Ajay Dev and I am writing this email seeking your support for my candidacy for Treasurer and Simon Dhungana for President of ANA. 
I have been in U.S. since 1980 and am married with Peggy who is my backbone for everything in life. We are blessed with our son Kishan, who is now 15 months old. I have a BS Degree in Civil Engineering and MS Degree in Environmental Engineering from the California State University, Chico. For the past 13 years, I have been working as a licensed engineer for the State of California, Department of Water Resources (DWR) in Sacramento, CA.
To be able to serve for the community gives me great gratification especially when I can make a direct positive impact in a person’s life. My community service includes:
- Executive Committee and a Co-Convener for the ANA 2009 Convention
- Board of Director member of Nepalis and Friends Cultural Association (NAFCA)
- Global Advisory Board Coordinator for Nepalis Association for Global Corporation (NAGC)

 Through service, reaching out to many different communities has given me broader understanding, appreciation and respect of the cultural diversity of Nepal and Nepali Americans. The Nepalis in America have our hearts in two places, here with our country the United States and with Nepal, our motherland.  I believe a peaceful and harmonious Nepal is a place for hopes and dreams of various backgrounds and ethnicity.
As a Treasurer of the ANA I promise to transparently:
- Act as a custodian of all funds, and fiscal files of the Association
- Receive all funds paid to the Association and keep the books straight
- Maintain appropriate, accurate and current financial records
- Report them quarterly to be published on the web for all members to see
- Keep financial health of the Association sound, and
- Be open to your suggestions and ideas

Simon Dhungana for ANA President
I, an executive member of ANA, fully support nomination Simon Dhungana for the ANA President. I came to know Simon Dhungana as a Convention Chair of the ANA 2009. In leading such a large endeavor I have seen firsthand his true leadership and how that has proved to be effective in crucial junctures. From many meetings I have been part of with him, he has demonstrated that he takes responsibility seriously, that he is efficient, confident, and productive with a team player attitude.  With his proven track record I look forward to serving the Nepali community with him leading the ANA team.
 
Sincerely,
Ajay Dev
Roseville, California
June 11, 2009

Read all the comments on the following link:

Ajay's family/relative/friends/, victim's friends, juror have commented in there.


http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_12703488

At this time Ajay is Yolo County detention center,,,so he is not attending the ANA.....

Such a disgrace and disappointment!!!