Child abuse detectives are investigating the sexual assault of a child. This case involves a 19-year-old boy who allegedly made contact with a 14-year-old girl through her online Web page.
Police say the suspect used the Internet to prey on his young victim.
They say he even took her out to eat and to the movies before allegedly raping her in the back of his car.(I can't believe her parents actually allowed her to or had no idea where their child was)
Nineteen-year-old Pete Solis is now charged with sexual assault of a child.
Police say it happened on May 12 on the 6800 block of Westgate Boulevard in a parking lot.
Police say Solis net the 14-year-old girl on MySpace.com. After e-mailing for several weeks and phone calls, they decided to meet. Solis eventually picked the girl up from school. Police say it was all part of his plan from the beginning.
"The suspect knew exactly what he was doing the entire time. He even confessed to me he thought she was 15. He's wrong. She's 14, then he says he thought the legal age for sex was 18 in Texas so he knew she was underage," APD Det. Joel Pridgeon said.
Pridgeon says after Solis drove the girl home, she then made an outcry to her mother.
It's the type of crime that's keeping detectives with APD's Child Exploitation Unit on their toes as more and more teens hangout on the Internet.
"We get constant calls from people about their daughter, niece, nephew on MySpace talking to people far too old to be talking to them," Pridgeon said.
Detectives say it's not just MySpace, but other chat rooms, e-mails, forums and even video games are aimed at getting your child's attention. So what can you do?
"You have to watch your children on the Internet. It's the same as dropping them off at the mall. You're not going to drop them off without giving instructions as to who they can talk to. When you drop your kid off on the Internet, you're dropping then off to the entire world," Pridgeon said.
Solis is still in jail. Solis' bond is set at $50,000.AUSTIN< TEXAS
Why in this world are the parents calling the police about their children talking to people too old for them? Can they not educate them enough before hand so they do not put themselves in this position in the first place?
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