Police records show that Phillip Calderon, a 37-year-old Binghamton resident, may have been involved in at least two criminal sexual acts in Binghamton within the past two years, one of which led Binghamton University officials to discover that he was posing as a student.
The most recent allegation was filed on Sept. 24 by an 18-year-old male BU student who accused Calderon of forcibly touching him while he was asleep. The student filed an incident report with the police, but he did not press charges against Calderon, according to a report in the Press & Sun-Bulletin.
University officials initially stated they discovered Calderon was not a student after coming across forged business documents.
But University spokeswoman Gail Glover told the Press & Sun-Bulletin that the University discovered Calderon was not a student when the sexual assault charges were brought to their attention.
‘In the context of working with a current student regarding a crime involving potential sexual misconduct that occurred at an off-campus location, University Police determined that Calderon was not a student and had a criminal history,’ Glover said in a statement to the Press & Sun-Bulletin, published Wednesday.
Gail Glover did not respond to questions from Pipe Dream.
Frank Torres, the special projects manager of BU’s Rainbow Pride Union, said that neither he nor other RPU E-Board members were notified by the University of any sexual assault allegations.
The first report of sexual assault was filed against Calderon in Binghamton on Jan. 31, 2009 by an unidentified male.
According to the report, which was largely redacted, the victim was at Merlin’s, a bar on State Street, when he began talking to Calderon at around 2 a.m. The report, which Pipe Dream obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request, stated that the victim set his drink down and went to use the restroom. He returned and resumed drinking, and he reported feeling ill five to 10 minutes thereafter.
The victim ‘does not remember anything after that,’ the report reads.
Two people who knew the victim said they lost track of him at about 2 a.m. and received a text message at 2:20 a.m. stating, ‘Help me.’
In 2008, Calderon pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse in Albany, but according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin, he did not need to register in the state sex offender registry because the victim was not under the age of 18.
Upon discovering that Calderon was not enrolled as a student, Binghamton’s New York State University Police told him to immediately leave campus. He has since been barred from campus.
The Student Association also removed Calderon from his elected positions, including president of Off Campus College Council and the conference director of RPU.
‘It’s out of my hands,’ SA President Jared Kirschenbaum said. ‘With the recent news, it is important that we let the authorities finish the job they’ve been assigned to do.’