A defense attorney for former FBI agent Eduardo Valdivia of Gaithersburg who stands accused of raping three young women at his tattoo parlors in 2022 and 2024 argued Wednesday that the sexual acts were consensual during Valdivia’s trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
In an opening statement Wednesday afternoon in the Rockville court, Robert Bonsib, Valdivia’s attorney, told the jury that the three women who came forward about their experiences with the FBI agent voluntarily met with him on multiple occasions.
However, prosecutors with the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said Valdivia “preyed on, isolated and sexually assaulted” the women at his parlor — located first in Potomac and then in a Gaithersburg office building — under the pretense of offering modeling opportunities and free tattoos. The women were between 18 and 21 years old…