WATSONVILLE, CALIF. — Detectives have arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly sexually abusing a teen over the span of several years.
The victim told detectives that the sexual abuse started when she 14 years old and that it lasted three years.
After a investigation, WPD detectives, with the help of Salinas Police Department, arrested Eric Quintanilla Ruiz in Salinas.
According to police Ruiz has been charged with ‘ lewd and lascivious acts on a child ages 14 or 15, sodomy of a child, crimes against nature — by force, violence or duress, by meeting at an arranged place or time and by committing sexual conduct — sexual exploitation of a child, sexual intercourse with a child more than three years younger than the perpetrator, and threatening violence toward a witness or victim.’
Quintanilla was booked into Monterey County Jail with a $300,000 bail on Thursday.
