Alleged Internet Sexual Predator Facing Charges Involving 14 Y/O Girl

Thursday November 14, 2024

     A 29-year-old Santa Barbara County man has been charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old Fillmore girl who the authorities say he met through a social media page.

     On Tuesday the Ventura County Sheriff's Office receive a call that the girl had failed to show up for school.

     Using the cell phone locator app the school resource officer was able to locate her in Camarillo.

     Deputies in Camarillo were immediately told and they went to the motel were the app had indicated she might be.

     They checked video surveillance and confirmed she had been there with the older man.

     Deputies then determined she and the man were still there in a vehicle in the parking lot.

     The girl was rescued and the man, 29-year-old Salvador Heredia Sanchez of Lompoc, was taken into custody.

     He was booked and later charged with Unlawful Sexual Intercourse, Lewd Act Upon a Child, Luring, and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor.

     The authorities say that after Sanchez had met the girl Online he allegedly began "grooming" her for two weeks before finally taking her to the motel in Camarillo.

     She is now safely back with her family.

     Sanchez is the Ventura County Jail with bail set at $259,900.