A federal monitor raped a Miami woman on house arrest. He didn’t count on what she saved
A Miami woman serving part of her federal prison sentence on house arrest didn’t have any choice when the man assigned to monitor her for the Federal Bureau of Prisons wanted sexual favors. As court documents stated, she was under Benito Montes de Oca Cruz’s “custodial, supervisory and disciplinary authority.”
So, she submitted to Montes de Oca’s wishes. But, she also told law enforcement what happened and provided evidence. When law enforcement went to the video and DNA she brought them, Montes de Oca was exposed.
Montes de Oca pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to one count of abusive sexual contact. He’s scheduled to be sentenced April 14.
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When the home isn’t a safe house
On Dec. 28, 2020, Montes de Oca worked as a site supervisor for Riverside House, which was contracted to do home confinement supervision for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The woman was spending the last five months of her four-year, three-month sentence on house arrest.
Montes de Oca’s guilty plea said as the site supervisor assigned to visit the woman’s home, “to determine her compliance with the terms of her home confinement,” she “was under the custodial, supervisory and disciplinary authority of [Montes de Oca].”
During the Dec. 28, 2020 supervision visit, Montes de Oca’s admission says, he touched her breasts, genitals and buttocks, made her get naked, then got on top of her. He made her masturbate him.
When investigators spoke with the woman, she told them what happened. She also provided the result of the masturbation for DNA testing and “two short videos.”
As for the DNA, the results said the same was 16 octillion (16,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) times more likely if [Montes de Oca] is a contributor than if an unknown, unrelated person is a contributor.”
The video confirmed the woman’s story. Montes de Oca confessed to being the man in the videos.
This case was investigated by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward N. Stamm.
This story was originally published February 20, 2023 at 11:39 AM.
