{"id":398088,"date":"2026-08-05T06:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:26:11","slug":"man-accused-of-giving-drugs-to-runaway-14-year-old-sexually-assaulting-her-in-dallas-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398088\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of giving drugs to runaway 14\u2011year\u2011old, sexually assaulting her in Dallas home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Texas<\/a> man allegedly gave drugs to a 14\u2011year\u2011old runaway and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sexually assaulted her<\/a> multiple times over three days at his Dallas home, arrest records show.<\/p>\n<p>David Michael Klepak, 62, is charged with sexual assault of a child, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Police Department<\/a> said. He is being held at Lew Sterrett Jail without bond on the second\u2011degree felony charge.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified Klepak after the teen described several luxury vehicles at his residence. Officers later saw him driving a white 2015 Bentley and stopped him for a traffic violation, where they found 17 glass pipes with residue, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the alleged assaults occurred between July 29 and July 31 at a residence on Winton Street in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/klepak.png#.png\" alt=\"klepak.png \" height=\"801\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  David Michael Klepak, 62 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Dallas Police Department<\/p>\n<p>During interviews at the Dallas Children&#8217;s Advocacy Center, the juvenile reported sexual assault and drug use while she was a runaway.<\/p>\n<p>According to arrest records, she described Klepak&#8217;s home as a messy duplex and said he had three vehicles \u2013 a Bentley, a Lexus, and two BMWs. She later identified him from an ID photo shown by detectives.<\/p>\n<p>When interviewed separately, Klepak confessed to having sex with the juvenile, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen told interviewers she ran away on July 29. She said Klepak approached her in a vehicle and offered her a ride, then gave her &#8220;Ice,&#8221; which she smoked from a glass pipe. She said he took her to his residence, where she stayed for about three days and was sexually assaulted multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving, she was homeless for one day before being located, police said.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Texas man allegedly gave drugs to a 14\u2011year\u2011old runaway and sexually assaulted her multiple times over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,4081,430,4031,27],"class_list":["post-398088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-north-texas","tag-sexual-assault","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}