UPDATE: April 7 at 9 a.m.
A judge on Tuesday morning has waived the case of a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a child under 12 to a Fayette County grand jury.
Judge Thurston set a $100,000 full cash bond for 31-year-old Jorge Luis Martinez Ulloa.
Martinez Ulloa faces multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree rape of a victim under 12, two counts of first-degree sodomy of a victim under 12, two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor under 12, first-degree strangulation, and kidnapping of a minor.
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A man is in custody at the Fayette County Detention Center on various violent charges, including strangulation and first degree sexual assault of a minor.
According to a press release by the Lexington Police Department, officers were dispatched to a residence on Devonport Drive on Saturday to reports of a juvenile who had been assaulted. The victim, who was under the age of 12-years-old, was transported to a nearby hospital.
The Lexington Police Department arrested 31-year-old Jorge Luis Martinez Ulloa in connection to the crime the same day.
Martinez Ulloa has been charged with two counts of a rape of a victim under the age of 12 in the first degree, two counts of sodomy of a victim under the age of 12 in the first degree, two counts of sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 12 in the first degree, strangulation in the first degree, and kidnapping of a minor.
Martinez Ulloa was booked at the Fayette County Detention Center on Sunday and he does not have a bond listed.
