ROCKVILLE, MD — The two teens charged with rape in the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl during school hours at Rockville High School exchanged text messages plotting the sexual encounter, Montgomery County prosecutors said in court during a bond review hearing Thursday.

According to WTOP, prosecutors said they obtained text messages between the two boys planning the assault. The boys are Jose Montano, 17, of an unconfirmed address and originally from El Salvador, and Henry Sanchez-Milian, 18, of the Aspen Hill area and originally from Guatemala. The boys allegedly decided Montano would convince the victim to have sex with him in a school bathroom. Sanchez-Milian would interrupt them and threaten to tell a teacher if Montano and the girl didn't let him join, prosecutors said.

Defense attorneys for Montano said the encounter between the girl and Montano was consensual and planned. They said the girl skipped gym class to have sex with him. "It's very clear that there were explicit text messages sent between the young lady and the 17-year-old defendant the night before, planning this type of encounter in the school the very morning that this happened," Andrew Jezic, the attorney for Sanchez-Milian, said.

The alleged sexual assault began at about 9 a.m. Thursday, March 16, when the girl was walking in a school hallway and met Montano and Sanchez-Milian. According to police, Montano asked the victim to walk with him and Sanchez-Milian. Montano asked the victim to engage in sexual intercourse, and she refused. According to the police report, Montano again asked the victim for sex, then forced her into a boys' bathroom and then into a stall. Montano and Sanchez-Milian both raped the girl inside the bathroom stall, authorities charge.

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They said the girl lied to police when she suggested she didn't know Montano well and didn't tell police that she and Montano had sex before. The defense attorneys called it "impeachment by omission." When Judge James Sarsfield asked how Sanchez-Milian got involved in the situation, the defense attorneys said they couldn't explain his participation and they didn't know whether the girl also consented to sex with Sanchez-Milian.