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Chama Valley & Abiquiú Daily Digest Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Ty McDuffey

08 Jul 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

When a sexual abuse case gets pleaded down, the details matter less than what it says about how justice moves—or doesn't—in a county where everybody knows everybody and the courthouse is smaller than most folks' living rooms. Up here in Rio Arriba, cases like this don't stay quiet, and they shouldn't, but there's a weight to them that's different from reading about it in the Santa Fe papers. The families involved are still your neighbors, still shopping at Bode's, still part of the land-grant fabric that holds this valley together, and a plea deal means the courthouse made a calculation about evidence and testimony that we're only seeing the shadow of. What matters now is whether the community knows what actually happened and whether anyone on either side of the courtroom can live with how it ended.

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Sexual Abuse Case Pleaded Down

An Ohkay Owingeh man entered a guilty plea to assault, significantly reducing the original charges of three counts of aggravated sexual abuse related to an alleged 2019 rape. Ashkia Trujillo, 31, accepted the plea deal that replaced the more serious sexual offense charges with the single non-sexual...

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