A Texas girl who had been reported missing was actually being held against her will for two weeks by five men who police alleged repeatedly drugged and raped her, Us Weekly has learned.
Lubbock Police said the missing 16-year-old girl was first reported missing on January 28. The following day, a criminal investigation was launched into her disappearance.
The girl was found by herself in mid-February inside a Lubbock pet store, according to a statement from police.
Officers who were called to the store because the teen was acting erratically. She was taken to Covenant Women’s and Children’s Emergency Room where she told staffers she had been raped by a group of men.
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Police were unable to interview the girl at first, as she was coming off of the drugs she’d been forced to ingest: namely, methamphetamine and cocaine. She was also forced to drink alcohol, she told cops.
Investigators spoke with the girl five days later, and she told them she had been kept in a drugged state while five men sexually assaulted her, according to an arrest warrant provided to Us.
The victim told detectives she was mostly held at the apartment of Christian Alvarez, who lived with his mother, Vivian Alvarez, who is 61. But she added she was moved between Alvarez’s apartment and a second apartment in the same building during her two weeks in captivity.
On February 19, Vivian was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of harboring a runaway. Meanwhile, Christian, 29, was charged with multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault as was Jaime Alcario Mendoza, 43.
Lubbock police also charged Edward Austin Hipolito, 22, and Alexander Hipolito, 31, with felony sexual assault of a child for raping the girl. Frank Ceccaci Maples, 44, was charged with a count of sexual assault of a child.
Mendoza and Christian are being held on $250,000 bonds. The Hipolitos had their bail set at $150,000. And Maples is being held on a $200,000 bond. All five men are being held at the Lubbock County Detention Center.
Two of the suspects forced the girl to perform a sex act and recorded their crimes.
The girl told police she was set free a day after Alvarez learned that she had been reported missing.
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She said Christian reportedly assaulted her with a metal rod and threatened to kill her and “wrap her body up where she would never be found” if she spoke to police.
Christian, she told cops, raped her one more time before driving her to the pet store and letting her out of his vehicle.
During her interview with police, the girl said that Maple sexually assaulted her twice.
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Alexander, police said, reportedly told investigators Mendoza brought the girl to his apartment. Mendoza allegedly confessed to sexually abusing the girl in his apartment.
Plea and attorney information for the five men and Alvarez’s mother was unavailable at press time.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).