A Gary man was charged Tuesday after sexually assaulting a 16-year-old runaway girl, records allege.
Kenneth Y. Jones, 46, is charged with rape, a Level 3 felony, and criminal confinement, a Level 6 felony.
He is being held without bond until Oct. 24, when his bail will be $100,000, or $10,000 cash.
His next hearing is on Oct. 16 before Judge Natalie Bokota.
Court records show a second man also assaulted the girl. No charges have been found in public filings.
Gary Police Detectives James Nielsen, Daryl Gordon and Indiana State Excise Police Detective Jason Szemes went to a home on June 17 on the 1400 block of Delaware after police got a tip that a girl was held there.
The girl said she ran away on June 8. Her mother reported her missing on June 12.
Jones took police through the home.
The girl first told detectives Jones let her inside after she ran away from home. She denied the men touched her.
When her father showed up, the girl said she had stayed there for a week. The second man offered to give her a ride home in a dark SUV but took her to the Delaware house. She later said he tried to have sex with her in the vehicle.
At the house, another girl, “Nikki,” tried to undress her in an upstairs bedroom. The second man tried to have sex with her but she refused. Both Jones and the second man forced her to perform a sex act.
Jones blew smoke from a “glass pipe” in her face, making her dizzy, the affidavit states. She later guessed it was crack cocaine.
The second man told her he had sex with young girls, and told her not to “say anything about it” or he would go to jail.
In a police interview, Jones denied touching the girl or blowing smoke in her face but admitted the girl was being held in the home.
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