A 79-year-old man was arrested Sunday after a 14-year-old girl told authorities he sexually assaulted her three years ago.
According to an Ector County Sheriff’s Office report, a woman called the sheriff’s office on April 28 and said a young relative told her Neftali Moreno Talamantes had sexually assaulted her.
The girl told both a sexual assault nurse examiner and a forensic interviewer at Harmony Home Child Advocacy Center Talamantes had digitally penetrated her when she was 11, the report stated. She declined a physical examination.
When an investigator called Talamantes, the septuagenarian told him he’d be contacting an attorney.
A warrant for Talamantes was issued Friday and he was booked into the Ector County jail Sunday on one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony.
He remained in custody Tuesday on a $100,000 surety bond.
