| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2009 
Texan Held as Suspect in Rape of 19 Juárez Women
 Associated Press
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A Texas man accused of sexually assaulting 19 women in Mexico was a chemical engineer who lived with his wife in El Paso, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Jorge Alberto MAcndez spent about 11 months crossing into the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez to assault women and girls in their homes, usually on a Tuesday or Friday, said Alejandro Pariente, regional deputy attorney general. Police arrested the naturalized U.S. citizen Saturday as he tried to cross the border again into Ciudad Juárez. He has been formally charged in just one case - the rape of a 15-year-old girl in April 2008 - but police suspect he was involved in 18 other similar attacks. The youngest victim was 13 years old.
Pariente said MAcndez usually talked his way into his victims' homes and threatened them with a gun.
One of MAcndez's alleged would-be victims thwarted his attack. Pariente said that MAcndez persuaded the 18-year-old woman to let him in her home by posing as a neighbor looking for electric cables, but he fled when she began screaming.
Another victim managed to write down her assailant's license plate number, which eventually led to Mendez's arrest.
Pariente said MAcndez, 42, was married and worked as a chemical engineer in an unspecified El Paso company. He is being held in a Mexican prison. Authorities could not immediately say whether he had a lawyer. |
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