WILLMAR - Three 18-year-olds from Willmar each face three felony criminal sexual conduct charges for participating in an alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in June 2017.

Jesse Jose Lopez, Alex Omar Valdivieso Chavez and Sergio Jesus Moreno-Leiva all face charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving the use of force causing injury, and two third-degree criminal sexual conduct charges for using force/coercion and because the victim was younger than 15 and more than two years younger than the alleged perpetrators.

The young men were 16 and 17 in June 2017 and they have been charged in juvenile court. Juvenile court files of 16- and 17-year-olds charged with felonies are open to the public.

All three are awaiting court hearings in Kandiyohi County District Court to decide whether they will face the charges as an adult.

The next court dates are Nov. 8 for Moreno-Leiva, Nov. 15 for Lopez and Dec. 3 for Chavez.

According to court records, the girl reported that she had been walking home from summer school when a vehicle approached her, carrying several people she knew. She got into the car, and they went to the home of one of the men.

The men allegedly provided alcohol to the 14-year-old. A group of people were in a bedroom when Lopez and Moreno-Leiva allegedly held her down and took her clothes off. She told authorities that she heard one of the men refer to a "one-time opportunity."

The girl allegedly told authorities that the three men held her down and sexually assaulted her. The next day she said she was in pain, and it hurt to walk.