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JudyM

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6. Wait, what? The guy reported her abuse himself, under an assumed name.
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 01:07 PM
Oct 2021

From the follow-up article above:

Serrano also posed as someone named “Pastor Marco,” according to testimony presented during the trial, and connected himself to the case by calling the child’s school from his own phone number to report that she was being exploited online.

When police and authorities from the state Children, Youth and Families Department went the girl’s home to follow up on the call, they found Serrano at the child’s home and arrested him on the spot after learning that he had raped the girl in his car the previous night after taking her and her younger sister to see the movie My Little Pony.


So if he hadn’t reported her exploitation …

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