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The appearance of an 11-year-old girl at a Bemidji emergency room led police to her alleged rapist and captor, a 22-year-old Texas man living in a local home with nearly a dozen undocumented immigrants, authorities say.
The victim arrived at the Sanford Bemidji Medical Center on Saturday Sept. 23 and “stated she had been sexually assaulted,” prompting medical personnel to contact police, a news release says.
After speaking with the adults who brought the girl to the ER and getting “several possible addresses” where the assault had occurred, investigators identified a home on America Court NW and executed a search warrant there — leading to the arrest of Oscar Ernesto Luna, of Mission, Texas.
Luna had an outstanding warrant from Hennepin County, the release says. He has now been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Beltrami County.
The raid also led to the discovery of “several other individuals” at the home, “eleven of which were transported by US Border Patrol to be processed as illegal immigrants.”
According to KVRR, court documents say a woman known the victim knew as “Auntie” lured the girl into a car, at which point “someone put a bag over her head” and brought her to a house where she was “stripped and tied up between two other juvenile girls who said the same things happened to them.”
The charges say that after enduring and witnessing abuse including rape, the victim managed to escape with the help of another girl who untied her, the station notes.
Luna is currently in the Beltrami County jail. The investigation is still underway.
