Published : Thursday, 11 Mar 2010, 5:05 PM CST
Adapted for Web by Tracy DeLatte, myFOXdfw.com
RICHARDSON, Texas - Richardson police have released more information about the two men arrested for sexually assaulting teens they met on social networking sites.
Police said two Good Samaritan helped a 14-year-old girl after she was drugged, raped and then thrown out of a moving car .
The woman and her husband were at the stoplight at Central Expressway and Belt Line Road when they saw the girl being thrown out of the slow-moving vehicle. The girl got up, but seemed to be having a hard time walking.
“She was very distraught, extremely distraught,” the woman said. “We were thinking if it was our little girl, we were hoping someone was going to help our little girl.”
After weeks of investigating the case, police arrested 37-year-old Enrique Torres, who is in the country illegally, and his 17-year-old cousin Orlando Nino Carrera, a Hillcrest High School student.
According to court documents, the girl met the pair on a social networking site. They picked her up on Feb. 13 and drove her to a gas station to buy beer. She said she only drank a few sips “before she began to feel dizzy and slip in and out of consciousness.”
The girl told police she remembers both men sexually assaulting her before being thrown out of their car.
Police now believe Torres and Carrera are connected to at least two other similar incidents in Richardson and Wichita Falls. And there could be more victims.
“It’s entirely possible that somebody else will contact us. If that is the case, call us and let us know so that we can find out how much these people are responsible for,” said Sgt. Kevin Perlich.
The Good Samaritans said the incident upset them so much they’ve used it as a reason to talk to their own daughter about the dangers of social networking sites.
“I’m so excited they caught these people,” the woman said. “It makes me think there’s one less set of people I have to worry about.”