The
unidentified girl was initially afraid to report what happened until convinced
to by her older sister, the station reported. Her parents immediately told
authorities.
A Florida Police captain was arrested Friday on charges he made a 15-year-old girl strip naked in the back seat of a car for a "sex check" to prove she wasn't having sex, reports said.
Capt. Juan De los Rios was
charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct involving a child
for making the girl strip naked, show her private parts and allow him to
inspect her body for bruising after finding her talking with a 19-year-old boy
in the backseat of a car on Jan. 18, according to a Broward State Attorney's
Office report obtained by the Sun-Sentinel.
De los Rios, 46, faces up
to 15 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine, authorities said.
The girl and her friend
were in the back of a car parked in the back of an industrial park after school
when De los Rios approached them, looking through the window, according to an
affidavit obtained by the Miami Herald.
"Were you having sex?
What were you doing here?" The girl told police De los Rios said to her
after making the two roll their window down, the affidavit said.
"No, no, no, officer
no," the affidavit said the girl told De los Rios.
De los Rios, an 18-year
police veteran, then allegedly told the girl he needed to check. When asked for
clarification, the officer told her he needed to "see inside" and
forced her to strip naked so he could perform the exam. The girl complied out
of fear, the affidavit said.
Finished with his “exam,”
De los Rios told the teens to go home, reports WTVJ.
The girl was initially
afraid to report what happened until convinced to by her older sister, the
station reported. Her parents immediately told authorities.
"She was probably so
intimidated by this police officer to even think that she had to do that,"
outraged Miramar resident Josie Huff WTVJ. "It's disgusting. It's just
unbelievable."
De los Rios turned himself
in at the Broward County Main Jail after a warrant was issued for his arrest
yesterday and is being held on $30,000 bail, the Miami Herald reported.
Investigators told the paper they have obtained a video tape, the paper reports that its quality isn't enough to identify those involved, but body language is consistent with the allegations.
The teens have not been
identified and a department spokesperson told the paper that De los Rios has
been suspended without pay "pending the outcome of the
investigation."