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Girls within the on-line relationship group across the Houston space are being requested to recall whether or not they got here into contact with a person who was allegedly preying on single moms with the aim of sexually assaulting their kids.
Investigators in Montgomery County, Texas arrested 42-year-old Epifanio Adolfo Jimenez (pictured above in his arrest mugshot) earlier this month on separate however associated prices, and shortly developed considerations that he might have been focusing on single mothers on relationship apps, constructing belief, after which asking to spend time with their kids. In flip, cops consider, he apparently supposed to then commit sexual assault on the focused kids.
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Jimenez was first delivered to police consideration after he was arrested again on March 15 of this yr and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a kid. In that case, the person was accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old woman a number of years in the past. The woman, who’s now 17 years previous, reportedly “made an outcry to her highschool counselor” about Jimenez earlier this yr, telling the varsity skilled about what had allegedly occurred to her again in 2017.
The sufferer advised her counselor and later the police that Jimenez got here residence from work drunk sooner or later, entered her room, and allegedly started yelling that she “didn’t admire what he does for her.” From there, the woman claimed, he pushed her onto the mattress and raped her, solely stopping when he heard a noise within the corridor. For years, the sufferer reported, she was terrified to inform anybody concerning the assault. After interviewing each the woman and Jimenez, investigators decided there was sufficient possible trigger in her story to maneuver ahead with submitting prices towards him.
Police started investigating additional, and decided that the woman’s mom had a previous connection to Jimenez. Lt. Scott Spencer of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace defined to the media that Jimenez did not meet the woman’s mom on a relationship app, saying (beneath):
“It wasn’t an precise relationship that occurred there. There was some familiarity between the sufferer and suspect.”
Nevertheless, investigators quickly started wanting deeper into Jimenez’s life and social patterns, and so they shortly turned extraordinarily about his on-line habits. They discovered that Jimenez was beforehand on probation in Galveston County, Texas, for “on-line solicitation of a minor.” Additional, they decided that he was utilizing relationship apps all through the previous few years, and their inquiry into his exercise has made authorities consider he might have been focusing on single moms so as to achieve entry to their kids.
Now, per Click2Houston, investigators are on the lookout for extra perception into his alleged sample, and cautioning the general public that there could also be extra victims on this case who might have probably met with Jimenez, or allowed him to have contact with their kids.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace is asking potential victims or these involved about having been in contact with the person to achieve out to the police at 936-760-5800, and reference case #22A067965.
So scary…
[Image via Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office]
