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Illegal immigrants charged with sexual assault on girls

Published October 4, 2006 at midnight

Two men suspected of being illegal immigrants have been accused of providing alcohol to two 13-year-old girls and sexually assaulting them in a motel room, the Grand Junction Sentinel reports.

Juan Rodriguez-Fregoso, 25, and Jose Mendez-Luna, 19, were charged with four counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault on a child, two counts of enticement of a child, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of child abuse, the paper reported.

The girls skipped school on Sept. 25 and asked the men for a ride that ended up in a motel on Orchard Mesa where the group drank alcohol and then the girls were sexually assaulted by the men. The victims were driven to a relative’s home and when the men stayed in a car outside, police were called and the pair was arrested.

Rodriguez-Fregoso and Mendez-Luna are being held in the Mesa County Jail on $20,000 bail and have U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds on them.

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