Teen charged with sexually assaulting 2-year-old girl

Mario Luis Guarchaj is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child under 6. Mario Luis Guarchaj is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child under 6. Photo: Houston Police Department Photo: Houston Police Department Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Teen charged with sexually assaulting 2-year-old girl 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with sexual assault of a child, accused of molesting a 2-year-old girl in her Houston home.

Mario Luis Guarchaj is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child under 6 and is being held on a $100,000 bond.

Prosecutors at Guarchaj's probable cause hearing late Wednesday described gruesome details that led to his arrest.

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Police were called out to the child's home Tuesday night. The 2-year-old's mother had told police Guarchaj took the child into a bedroom while she was in the bathroom with maintenance men, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Guarchaj assaulted the girl, who is a relative, in a bedroom closet.

The mother later walked into a bedroom when she saw Guarchaj and the little girl on the same bed with one of the child's diaper straps hanging off, prosecutors said.

Guarchaj told the mother that she child had soiled herself, and insisted he had taken her to the bed to clean her. The mother took the child and saw she had not soiled herself, but was bleeding.

Throughout the probable cause hearing, Guarchaj's head starred down.

Guarchaj, a Guatemalan native, has been in the United States for a year and a half, according to his public defender. Recently, he was working as a butcher in Sugar Land.

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