A 20 year old Albion accused of raping a child is back in jail without bond after he allegedly continued to sexually assault the underage girl.
Lionardo Rojas Jr. was arrested on Sunday night in Albion on several new charges. The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office took Rojas into custody on another count of felony 3rd degree child rape, felony delivery of a controlled substance to a minor, misdemeanor harboring a juvenile runaway and misdemeanor violation of a pretrial sexual assault protection order. The alleged victim in the case is a 15 year old girl that Rojas met online last winter.
Rojas was out of jail after posting bond from a May case when he was arrested on three counts of child rape and was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim. Longtime Whitman County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Tessa Scholl told the court Monday that she has never seen another case like this one. You can hear some of her comments to the judge below.
Whitman County Superior Court Judge Roger Sandberg on Monday revoked Rojas’s pretrial release from his previous case and held him in jail without bond. He is set to be arraigned on the new charges Thursday.
The 20 year old already has an extensive criminal history with previous convictions for protection order violations, felony residential burglary and misdemeanor assault.
