A man in the U.S. illegally has been accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and attempting to rape her after she refused to get back together with him.
On June 23, Rene Cervantes-Medina — a 37-year-old Mexican national living in Lehi, Utah, which is about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City — invited his live-in partner to go to the bank so that he could repay her some money he owed her, according to a probable cause statement shared with Blaze News. When she got into the vehicle, however, Cervantes-Medina reportedly locked the doors and — instead of driving to the bank — headed for American Fork Canyon, the statement said.
‘The defendant tried to pull down her pants and ripped her underwear in the process. The victim told the defendant ‘no’ and continued to cry and yell, at which point he hit her in the face, causing her nose and lip to bleed.’ […]
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