July 21, 2008
Brandon Haught
Public Information Office

MAN WANTED FOR SEXUAL BATTERY ON A PATIENT 

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office seeking the public’s help in finding a medical attendant for a local substance abuse facility who’s accused of coercing a female client into having sex by telling her she wouldn’t get into a treatment program if she  refused. The defendant, 50-year-old Carmelo Eduardo Reyes-Rosado, has since quit his job at Daytona Beach-based Stewart-Marchman Center. Sheriff’s investigators obtained warrants for Reyes-Rosado Thursday charging him with two counts of sexual battery. 

The complaint against Reyes-Rosado first surfaced on June 2, when a 26-year-old woman who had been a client at Stewart-Marchman revealed that she had been pressured into having sex with the defendant on multiple occasions while at the facility. The victim, struggling with drug and alcohol problems, had voluntarily checked herself into Stewart-Marchman on May 22. The next day, she said the defendant told her that she needed to have sex with him if she wanted to get into a residential treatment program. The victim, who was sedated and in a vulnerable emotional state, said she feared that she wouldn’t get the help she needed if she didn’t have sex with the defendant. After she agreed, the victim said Reyes-Rosado led her into a laundry room where he had her perform a sex act on him. The victim said she had sexual encounters with the defendant on approximately seven different occasions while she was at the treatment center, each time either in the laundry room or a conference room at the facility. After each encounter, the defendant told the victim not to say anything or it would jeopardize her getting into the treatment program. During the last episode on May 31, Reyes-Rosado brought another female client into the room to witness the sex act. 

While the sexual encounters weren’t caught on tape, surveillance video from inside the facility captured the defendant walking into the laundry room with the victim on May 26 and also captured the defendant, victim and the other female client walking to the conference room on May 31. The defendant quit his job on the same day that the complaint was made. Two days later, the defendant’s attorney arranged for a meeting with Sheriff’s investigators, where he admitted to two of the sex acts. After Sheriff’s Office’s case agent, Richard Fortin, completed his investigation, Circuit Court Judge Patrick G. Kennedy issued an arrest warrant on Thursday. 

Reyes-Rosado is a Hispanic man, about 6’3” tall and 180 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. His last known address is 5 Llosee Court, Palm Coast. Local law enforcement attempted to serve the arrest warrants there, but discovered that the home was empty. Anyone with information about Reyes-Rosado’s whereabouts is asked to contact Investigator Fortin at (386) 323-0151 or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida, toll-free, at 1-888-277-TIPS.  Callers to Crime Stoppers will remain anonymous and can qualify for a reward of
up to $1,000.  

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Reyes-Rosado turned himself in to the Volusia County Sheriff's District office in Holly Hill Monday afternoon. and was then transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.