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WEBVTT INDECENT ASSAULT AND BATTERYON A 14-YEAR-OLD.WORCESTER POLICE ARRESTED22-YEAR-OLD LOUIS SANTOS, AWORCESTER RESIDENT AND ANATIVE OF EL SALVADOR.THEY SAY SANTOS RAPED A14-YEAR-OLD GIRL HE ILLEGALLYBROUGHT INTO THE COUNTRY.THE UH LEMGED -- ALLEGEDVICTIM MET HIM ON FACEBOOKWHILE SHE WAS STILL IN ELSALVADOR.>> THE FEMALE WAS SMUGGLEDACROSS THE BORDER AND WASEVENTUALLY BROUGHT TOWORCESTER.Reporter: THE VICTIM LIVED INHIS APARTMENT FOR THREEWEEKS.AND THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED INA ROMANTIC WITH HIM.>> TO PROTECT THE TEEN THEYARE NOT GIVING AN EXACTADDRESS.>> HE WOULD LOCK HER IN THEBEDROOM AND REFUSING TO ALLOWHER TO LEAVE.HE DE MADE HER ACCESS TO APHONE AND ALSO WOULD NOT ALLOWHER TO ATTEND WASES AT THESCHOOL.Reporter: THE REGULARATTENDANCE PROMPTED THESCHOOLS TO PROMPT POLICE TOINVESTIGATE.>> AT THIS TIME WE HAD THATINDICATION THAT THERE WEREOTHER FEMALE VICTIMS OUTTHERE.IT IS DANGEROUS AND IT ISSCARY AND ESPECIALLY FOR HERWHEN SHE WAS HERE WITHOUTBEING ABLE TO SPEAK THELANGUAGE I'M SURE SHE DIDN'TKNOW WHERE TO GO AND WHO TOTURN TO TO REPORT IT.>> POLICE SAY THECONVERSATIONS BEGAN ABOUTMID-DECEMBER.THEY SAY HE LIVED HERE IN THE

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After being held inside a Massachusetts home and abused for about three weeks, police said a teenager from El Salvador was able to ask for help when she was sent to school. The 14-year-old girl, who was not identified because of her age, had been enrolled in the Worcester Public School District for several weeks but was not attending class on a regular basis. When detectives spoke to the child, they learned she had met her captor over Facebook. He was later identified as Luis Santos, 22, police said. She was living in El Salvador at the time that she began chatting with Santos, and police said he eventually paid $5,000 to have the girl smuggled into the United States. The victim arrived during December and was brought to Santos' apartment on Kingsbury Street. Although the girl told Santos she did not want a romantic relationship with him, Worcester police said she was forced to sleep in his bed. Police said Santos touched the child sexually and against her will on more than one occasion. "It was also discovered that Santos prevented the victim from attending school, locked her in the bedroom, and refused to let her use the phone," Worcester police said. After approximately three weeks, police said Santos allowed the victim to leave the apartment to attend school. At that time, she contacted to family friends in Worcester and went to stay with them instead of returning to Santos. Detectives first spoke with Santos over the phone, and he agreed to meet with them at the police station. Following that interview, Santos was arrested with kidnapping, rape of a child, human trafficking of a minor, and three counts of indecent assault and battery.