The Dallas 13-year-old was missing for two weeks. Authorities say she had been in contact through social media with her abductor, 34.
A 13-year-old Texas girl who had been reported missing two weeks ago was found locked in an outbuilding of a North Carolina man who enticed her to leave home, officials said Monday.
The girl was found in Davidson County, which is south of Winston-Salem, on Friday night, Davidson County Sheriff Richie Simmons said at a news conference. Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho, 34, was arrested on child abduction, felonious restraint, statutory rape and other charges, officials said. The two had communicated on social media chat programs, Simmons said.
A house and outbuilding, right, where Jorge Camacho is believed to have been living, in Lexington, N.C., on Monday.Camacho also lived in the outbuilding where the victim was found, the property ownerThe sheriff’s office was contacted by the FBI in Dallas, and it put Camacho under surveillance and made a traffic stop around 6 p.m. Friday, Simmons said.WXII
The girl was found in what was described as an outbuilding that was locked from the outside, the sheriff’s office said.Camacho was being held in lieu of $1.25 million bond Monday, the sheriff’s office said. Online court records did not appear to show whether he had an attorney.
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