Dorchester Times: Wire: Dorchester Illegal Immigrant, 32, Arrested For Raping 13-Year-Old Girl

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Wire: Dorchester Illegal Immigrant, 32, Arrested For Raping 13-Year-Old Girl

DORCHESTER, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 32-year-old man living in Dorchester on suspicion of raping a 13-year-old girl he met while singing in a local church choir.

Raymundo M. Cruz — also known as Luis Lopez-Muniz and Raymundo Perez — remains in the Lancaster County Jail on $300,000 bond. The use of alternative names suggests Cruz is present in the U.S. illegally.

The girl told police she met Cruz about a year ago and the two became friends.

She says on July 17, he asked to meet her to discuss a mutual friend. The girl says Cruz drove her to a lake near Crete, where he raped her in the backseat of his SUV.

If convicted of first-degree sexual assault of a child, Cruz faces up to life in prison.

*UPDATE*: Here is more on the story from the Lincoln Journal Star:

Authorities have arrested a 32-year-old Dorchester man on suspicion he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl he met while singing in the choir at Sacred heart Church in Crete. The girl told authorities she met Raymundo M. Cruz, also known as Luis Lopez-Muniz and Raymundo Perez, about a year ago. On July 17, the girl got a message from Cruz asking to meet at a Burger King in Crete and talk about a mutual friend, the affidavit said.

Cruz drove the girl from the Burger King to Bluestem Lake, the affidavit said, and they drank beer together as he drove. The affidavit said the girl told investigators that at the park they both got out of the Ford Expedition, Cruz lowered the back seats, grabbed her around the waist, pushed her into the back of the vehicle and sexually assaulted her.

The affidavit said the next day Cruz told the girl not to tell anyone about what happened because it would ruin his life and hurt his children. The girl told her parents, who took her to be examined at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center and contacted authorities. Cruz went by the name Luis Lopez-Muniz for employment purposes because he is undocumented and in the United States illegally, the affidavit says.

9 comments:

AnonymousJuly 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM
WHO IS EMPLOYING THIS HUMAN PIECE OF CRAP???? I WANT TO KNOW!!!! THAT EMPLOYER SHOULD THINK ABOUT HIS OWN DAUGHTER.
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AnonymousJuly 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Wow. Shocking story. Can the sheriff's department conduct an Operation Clean Sweep and finally get a handle on who is in this county illegally? Why are they here?
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EdJuly 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM
This after a 19 year old rapes and beats to death a 93 year old woman in south omaha. Sick. What the obama administration wont do will eventually be done by the american citizenry. I promise.
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AnonymousJuly 30, 2013 at 1:08 PM
The blogsters are just anti-immigrant.
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AnonymousJuly 30, 2013 at 2:07 PM
I have heard that the county sheriff is indeed planning a crackdown on illegal immigrants in the county sometime in the coming weeks. They are keeping the details secret as plans are being finalized, is what I'm told by a very dependable individual in Wilber. It will be a door to door check I was told.
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cynical richardJuly 30, 2013 at 6:27 PM
................................. maybe another so called church on main street will make things better ............................................................
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AnonymousJuly 31, 2013 at 5:18 PM
For once, I'm nodding in sarcastic agreement with Dick.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."