- Chad Jason Torres-Cruz faces charges of kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old girl in Weber County.
- He allegedly met her through Instagram.
- Separately, he faces rape and other charges in the state of Washington and is currently being held in a Spokane jail.
OGDEN — A former West Valley City man faces charges of sexually assaulting and kidnapping a 13-year-old girl he met via social media sometime in 2021 or 2022.
Chad Jason Torres-Cruz, 30, faces a count of child kidnapping and rape of a child, first-degree felonies, sometime between Aug. 7, 2021, and Aug. 6, 2022. The Weber County Attorney’s Office filed the charges last Friday in 2nd District Court in Ogden, and the court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for the man. He’s being held in a jail in Spokane, Washington, on charges of rape and other crimes he faces there.
Torres-Cruz and the victim allegedly met via social media, Instagram, and the man picked her up from her home, transported her in his truck to the Pineview Reservoir area of Weber County and forcibly had sex with her. The man subsequently apologized to her via Instagram and met with her a second time…