Teen charged with rape of 5-year-old
Updated: Saturday, 05 Sep 2009, 6:24 PM MDT
Published : Saturday, 05 Sep 2009, 5:57 PM MDT
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Three people are in jail after the alleged rape of a 5-year-old girl, including the accused rapist, his mother and his girlfriend.
Police said a 17-year-old man sexually assaulted the child last month at a family home in southwest Albuquerque.
Vanessa Luevanos, 23, is the 5-year-old's mother. She and Sherry Archuleta, 43, are accused of conspiring to hide the attack on the child.
Even though the child was bleeding and complained she was in pain, Luevanos and Archuleta tried to keep it a secret, according to the criminal complaint.
Luevanos was visually upset when the judge continued her bond Saturday in court.
Archuleta's $50,000 bond was also continued.
The rape suspect was arrested and booked into the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center.
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