Upon finding their runaway teen-age daughter and her friend at a
24-year-old man
’s apartment in Morgan Hill, a pair of local parents promptly
escorted him to the Gilroy police station.
Upon finding their runaway teen-age daughter and her friend at a 24-year-old man’s apartment in Morgan Hill, a pair of local parents promptly escorted him to the Gilroy police station.
After interviewing Jesus Mendez Toro and the two Gilroy girls who skipped town together – one 15 years old and the other 16 – police arrested Toro on six felony sex charges: two counts each of sexual intercourse with a minor, oral copulation with a minor and unlawful penetration with a person who cannot give legal consent due to a physical, mental or developmental disability.
Toro had sex with only one of the girls, on two occasions, according to Gilroy police Detective Wes Stanford. The other girl may have had sex with a second man, said Stanford.
The investigation is ongoing.
Stanford declined to identify the girls, shed light on the girl’s disability or say specifically when and where the alleged sex acts occurred.
As of Monday afternoon, Toro was being held in Santa Clara County Jail on $100,000 bail. He is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
Parents reported the two girls missing to police at about 5 p.m. Friday. They started their search by asking acquaintances if they had seen the girls and ultimately heard the girls were staying at Toro’s apartment at 140 Ciolino Ave., Morgan Hill. There they found them at about 10 p.m. Saturday.
After their trip to the police station, the girls returned home.
The girls had not known Toro previously, Stanford said; they met him in Gilroy after they ran away.
These two were not the only lost-and-found girls who ended up in trouble over the weekend. After arresting a 15-year-old San Martin girl for allegedly being under the influence of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, Gilroy police discovered the girl had been reported missing by her family.
