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A Florida police officer is accused of having sex with an underage girl he first met when she was 11 and he was assigned to her missing persons case.
Oldy Ochoa Jr., 48, a homicide detective who has been with the Miami Beach Police Department for 20 years, was charged with two counts of sexual battery Saturday for allegedly having sex with the girl in an unmarked police vehicle as he was taking her to her GED class, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
Ochoa first met the girl when he helped locate her six years ago when she had a missing persons case. While living with another family he petitioned the court to allow her to live with his family in December.
She stayed there for two months before running away, the newspaper reports.
The Pembroke Pines Police Department, which is investigating the case, could not make a copy of the arrest report available to the Daily News Sunday.
The victim told police Ochoa allegedly would hold her hand and kiss her while the two were sitting on a couch, the Sentinel reported.
The sexual assault occurred in an unmarked police car in February in an alley near the school where the girl was taking her GED classes, the newspaper reported. The pair also had sex in the car in a wooded area.
Ochoa is now at Broward County jail and his attorney told the newspaper he would not discuss the allegations.
The investigation was launched in March and Ochoa was relieved of his duties as an officer, the newspaper reported.
Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates issued a statement describing the situation as “a very sad day for our department” and they would take appropriate action regarding his employment when the criminal case concluded.
