Illegal immigrants charged with sexual assault on girls
Rocky Mountain News
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Two men suspected of being illegal immigrants have been accused of providing alcohol to two 13-year-old girls and sexually assaulting them in a motel room, the Grand Junction Sentinel reports.
Juan Rodriguez-Fregoso, 25, and Jose Mendez-Luna, 19, were charged with four counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault on a child, two counts of enticement of a child, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of child abuse, the paper reported.
The girls skipped school on Sept. 25 and asked the men for a ride that ended up in a motel on Orchard Mesa where the group drank alcohol and then the girls were sexually assaulted by the men. The victims were driven to a relatives home and when the men stayed in a car outside, police were called and the pair was arrested.
Rodriguez-Fregoso and Mendez-Luna are being held in the Mesa County Jail on $20,000 bail and have U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds on them.
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