Police search for rape suspect
Illegal immigrant accused of impregnating 10-year-old girl
By JAMES OSBORNE
The Monitor
PHARR - Police said they are searching for a 21-year-old illegal immigrant
accused of raping a 10-year-old family member and leaving her pregnant.
Authorities were alerted to the case by a local doctor, who discovered the
girl's pregnancy during a routine medical exam last Friday, Pharr police
Lt.
Guadalupe Salinas said.
The girl was subsequently taken to the Children's Advocacy Center in
Edinburg where she told staff that her 21-year-old relative, Pedro Guzman
Muņoz, had raped her, police said. It is the Valley Morning Star's policy
to
not identify victims of ***ual assault, or their exact relation****p to the
suspect if the relation****p can be used to identify the victim.
"We assume (the abuse had) been going on for some time," Salinas said. "We
don't know for sure, but at least six months."
The girl is three-months pregnant and remains in her parents' home.
Child Protective Services social workers are investigating the home to
determine whether the parents knew their daughter was being raped,
authorities said. However, Salinas said there was no indication the
parents
were aware of the ***ual assault before the doctor's examination.
Police continued to search for Guzman on Thursday but said they did not
have
any leads on his whereabouts.
"We think he went back to Mexico because he's an undo***ented immigrant,
but
we don't know," Salinas said.
May 26, 2006 - 08:25:39 CDT
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