Fair 68°
Tag:

Passaic County Prosecutor's Office’s Sexual Investigations Unit

Police & Fire
Feds: Illegal Immigrant Abducted, Raped Paterson Girl, 15, Took Her Across State Lines Feds: Illegal Immigrant Abducted, Raped Paterson Girl, 15, Took Her Across State Lines
Feds: Illegal Immigrant Abducted, Raped Paterson Girl, 15, Took Her Across State Lines A federal grand jury has returned charges against an illegal immigrant living in Passaic County who authorities said abducted and raped a 15-year-old Paterson girl he took to Ohio. Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, a 33-year-old Ecuadorian national who’d been deported in 2010 but snuck back into the U.S., abducted the girl this past April and transported her to Ohio “with the intent that she engage in sexual activity,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. A superseding indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark charges Morales-Pedraza with kidnapping, illegal transportat…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco