North Carolina man charged with kidnapping, raping Dallas teen found in shed

DALLAS – A person is dealing with a number of fees, accused of kidnapping a Dallas woman and taking her to North Carolina. She was rescued from a shed behind a house.

Relations of the 13-year-old woman are thanking legislation enforcement for locating the teenager and thanking neighborhood members for his or her assist. 

FOX 4 is selecting to not determine the household or the teenager as a result of she’s a reported sufferer of sexual assault.

Police say 34-year-old Jorge Camacho took a 13-year-old woman close to her residence in Dallas and dedicated a number of intercourse crimes in opposition to her earlier than she was discovered locked in a shed greater than 1,000 miles away on a property in North Carolina.

The Davidson County Sheriff’s Workplace says Camacho had been chatting with the teenager by a social media platform. The content material was in line with grooming and enticement. 

Bianca Davis is CEO of New Associates New Life, a non-profit which works to revive sexually exploited teen women and extra.

“Traffickers actually prey on the on a regular basis wants of teenagers and locations the place teenagers hang around. And quite a lot of occasions, that’s on-line,” she stated. “The typical age {that a} woman is trafficked right here in the USA is 15 years previous.”

The teenager went lacking on March 1st, in keeping with her household. Video cameras within the space of the kid’s residence in Dallas later recognized a suspect automobile belonging to Camacho. 

Working with the Dallas Police Division, the Dallas FBI notified legislation enforcement in North Carolina. He was arrested Friday. The teenager was discovered locked within the shed the place Camacho lived. 

Trop Sim lives on the residence on the property. She says Camacho is her son’s good friend. Sim says she had been permitting Camacho to stay within the shed for the previous two years.

“I simply took him in. Helped him out,” she stated. “I’m not concerned with no matter he’s doing as a result of I didn’t know he was that sort of particular person.”

Camacho is charged with eight felonies together with abduction, restraint, human trafficking, statutory rape and extra.

“Though it’s alarming, we’re not shocked as a result of that is how trafficking occurs in our neighborhood,” Davis stated.

The kid was medically evaluated and is now again in Texas.

“It nonetheless may have been even worse though that’s onerous to think about,” Davis stated. “She may’ve gone lacking for a very long time or may’ve been killed.”

Further fees are pending. Federal fees haven’t been dominated out. For now, Camacho’s bond is $1.25 million.