This past week, the man considered to be the number one television personality on Dominican television, Frederick Martínez, popularly known as El Pachá, sexually assaulted another woman on his television program, Pégate y gana con El Pachá. His latest victim is merengue legend Belkis Concepción, who in the eighties rose to fame as a member of the most legendary women’s merengue group, Las Chicas del Can.

For years, El Pachá has repeatedly assaulted women on Dominican television. El Pachá is presently employed by US-TV network Telemundo after swapping Univisión for Telemundo in 2013. On United States soil, El Pachá is well-behaved and portrays a different image. However, he constantly assaults victims on Dominican television; presently he travels weekly to the Dominican Republic, his sexual assault domain.

El Pachá Assaults Belkis Concepción and Brags About It

Belkis Concepción began to pursue legal action against the controversial television personality. Concepción noted:

“I have lived a very difficult situation these past few days. You can not imagine what it is like for me to relive that on network television. That is why we sent a statement rejecting his action ... no one has said that this was staged. If I remain silent on the matter, I am giving him approval for what he did, for that reason we made the complaint before the National District Attorney’s Office.”

Even after the kiss, El Pachá gloated about his assault while simultaneously being applauded and celebrated by the audience and crew members—such reactions, however, were most likely due to the shock of what just transpired.

While on air, Concepción told El Pachá to his face, “You are a violent man,” yet El Pachá and his complicit television crew brushed off this and other comments as mere jokes. El Pachá justified his actions when he responded saying, “I am aggressive…from the tip of my feet up to the top of my head. There is no woman who has been with me that will ever forget me.”