An FBI agent who had previously been acquitted in a 2020 shooting on a moving Metro Red Line train was found guilty Friday聽of raping three young women.
Prosecutors confirmed with 海角精品黑料 that 41-year-old Eduardo Valdivia was convicted on six counts of second-degree rape and two counts of fourth-degree sex offense. He聽faces 122 years in prison and his sentencing his scheduled for Oct. 14.
Prosecutors said Valdivia raped the three women after offering them free tattoos in exchange for modeling opportunities. Valdivia鈥檚 attorney argued the encounters were consensual, and that his client did not force anyone to engage in any sexual activities.
“We are obviously thrilled with the verdict,” Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said.
Valdivia was聽arrested in November and charged in the sexual assaults of聽two women in their 20s in May and September of last year.
At the time of his first court appearance, Montgomery County police urged any other potential victims to come forward, and another woman came forward with a similar story.
“The youngest victim was as young as 18, the two others were very early 20s. They were selected because they were vulnerable, unsophisticated and they were lured with false threats of either, ‘I’m gonna give you a free tattoo, or potential for modeling careers,” McCarthy said.
According to charging documents, the third woman told police Valdivia raped her in 2022, after she came across the Instagram account 鈥淒CFineLines” and made appointments to receive two tattoos from him.
After receiving her first tattoo from Valdivia at his studio in Potomac, Maryland, she scheduled a second appointment for Oct. 2, 2022, asking for a small tattoo above her rib cage.
The woman said Valdivia told her she should be topless for the tattoo. When he finished the tattoo, he took pictures of her, asking her to remain topless and use a blanket to cover her breasts, court documents said.
When Valdivia put a bandage on the tattoo, he picked her up and moved her to a couch. Court documents said the woman 鈥渂ecame immediately aware of Valdivia鈥檚 intention to engage her in sexual contact.鈥�
The woman urged Valdivia to stop, adding that it wasn鈥檛 something she wanted, according to court documents. Valdivia ignored her and forced intercourse with her. She then blocked Valdivia鈥檚 social media accounts, and said she 鈥渟imply wanted to pretend the rape did not occur.鈥� She didn鈥檛 file a police report.
In November 2024, the woman reviewed a list of blocked Instagram accounts, and noticed DCFineLines wasn鈥檛 on it anymore. She searched for more information about the page and found out Valdivia had been arrested and charged in the rapes of two other women, who had similar stories. At that point, documents said, she contacted police.
“This is a man who took advantage of these young women and he is going to pay a very steep price,” McCarthy said.
海角精品黑料’s Scott Gelman and Neal Augenstein contributed to this report.
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