Two Odessa residents are being held in the Ector County jail on multiple felony charges after authorities said an investigation revealed they sexually assaulted a 1-year-old girl and sent video of the assaults to one of their mothers in Russia.
According to Texas Department of Public Safety reports released Monday, Homeland Security received a pornographic media file from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Dec. 27 after the national center received a tip from TikTok.
Special agents determined the email associated with the TikTok account belonged to Cleyret Pacheco-Peraza, 22. Agents using the same email address found Pacheco-Peraza’s Facebook account and identified her and Leiwin Lara-Hernandez, 23, as suspects after seeing Facebook photos of her, Lara-Hernandez and the baby celebrating the baby’s first birthday, the report indicated.
According to the reports, when special agents went to speak with Pacheco-Peraza, she admitted to performing oral sex on the baby about 50 times. She also admitted to recording Lara-Hernandez sexually assaulting the child at her former apartment on Harless Avenue and sending the video to her mother in Russia, the report stated.
The media file the agents have in their possession shows Lara-Hernandez performing oral sex on the child, the report stated.
The pair were arrested Jan. 3 on suspicion of aggravated sexual assault, possession of child pornography and possession of child pornography with intent to promote it.
Both are being held in the Ector County jail on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold and surety bonds totaling $180,000.
