Meg Jones

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A youth soccer referee who was deported twice to Mexico has been charged with child enticement and second-degree sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

Cristian Sanchez, 26, of Milwaukee also was charged Tuesday in Waukesha County with giving police a wrong name and birth date. He's being held in the Waukesha County Jail and expected back in court Thursday.

The 15-year-old girl told Waukesha police she knew Sanchez because he was a soccer referee at the C.F. Schuetze Recreation Building.

According to the criminal complaint:

The girl said Sanchez, whom she met around four months earlier and knew as Miguel Garcia, regularly sent her text messages indicating that he loved her. Last month, he showed up at her school and gave her flowers sprayed with men's cologne so she would remember him. They sat in his car and he tried to kiss her, she said.

Four days later, the girl was at a soccer game at the Schuetze building when she told her parents and her 17-year-old sister she was going to the family van to get a bag of chips. The 17-year-old girl became concerned when her sister didn't return, so she and her parents walked through the parking lots looking for her. The 17-year-old girl saw her younger sister with a man who walked quickly to his car and drove away.

The girl told police as she was walking to her family's vehicle Sanchez called to her from the parking lot and asked her to walk with him to his car. As they walked, Sanchez opened his jacket and suggested she pull closer to him for warmth. She said Sanchez wrapped his hands around her waist, grabbed her buttocks and rubbed his genitals against her. Sanchez became frightened when he heard the girl's family calling her name and she called back to them, so he left in his car.

The soccer league owner told police Sanchez was hired about two years ago to referee matches at the complex. On Sunday, police found Sanchez leaving the Schuetze Recreation Building and he gave them his Mexico consular ID, a card given by the Mexican government to Mexican nationals living in other countries. But the ID had a different first name and a birth date eight years younger than Sanchez.

Police later learned his true identity and discovered an outstanding arrest warrant in Milwaukee County for a 2014 disorderly conduct charge. They also learned Sanchez had twice been deported to Mexico.