Ector County, TX (Honk News) – An Ector County Grand Jury indicted a Cuban couple who lived in Odessa and were accused of sexually assaulting their infant daughter.
Cleyret Pacheco-Peraza and Leiwin Lara-Hernandez were both charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and Possession of Child Pornography, and they remained in the Ector County Law Enforcement Center as of Monday morning on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold and a combined $275,000 bond.
The couple was indicted at the end of February and is scheduled to appear in court on March 11 for an arraignment. An arraignment is the first step in the criminal court process, where suspects are formally charged and given the chance to enter a plea.
Pacheco-Peraza and Lara-Hernandez were detained in January following an investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Here’s what we know about the case:
According to a Texas Department of Public Safety affidavit, a DPS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent replied to a Homeland Security Investigations request for help on December 30, 2024, regarding a cyber-tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. After reviewing the information, officials determined that the media file in question contained sexually explicit material concerning a one-year-old girl.
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Investigators eventually discovered that, while living in a flat on Harless Avenue in Odessa, Pacheco-Peraza and Lara-Hernandez reportedly recorded their child’s sexual assault and transferred it to a family in Russia. During questioning, Lara-Hernandez allegedly acknowledged to sexually assaulting the baby around 50 times. She also admitted to sharing a video of the assault to Pacheco-Peraza’s family living outside the county.
DPS took both of the suspects into custody on January 3.
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