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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.

Is ANA-2009 being organized with this guy on organizing committee?
Already convicted and he is still on the organizing committee member and begging for the vote. Probably with the motto "to do good for Nepalese in North America and Nepalese in the world".

What a shame !!! And ANA members, specially Anil Pandey dumping here in sajha with all promo news and programs, as if they are doing something great that we should be proud of.

I really wish someone from ANA could speak something about this.

Shame on ANA as his name (convicted rapist Ajay Dev) was listed in its web site as co-convener till Sunday, the last time that i checked ANA 2009 web site.

Post that info in the blog rmny if possible or the link so that everyone could look at it. I heard that ANA has removed his name from their website it that correct.