Editor's note: This story has been updated from its original version.
MONROE — A registered sex offender is alleged to have molested two persons known to him, a 20-year-old woman and a young child, following the results of a police investigation launched in 2021.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Green County Circuit Court, Isreal Galindo, 41, is charged with first-degree child sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault; and two counts of third-degree sexual assault.
The victims in the case were 20-year-old woman [Victim 2] who had to rebuff his attempts at sexual contact on more than one occasion, and an eight-year-old child [Victim 1] who was fondled outside her clothing in a separate incident, the complaint said. The young girl was also reportedly told to refrain from informing her mother about the man’s abuse.
Galindo is a registered sex offender who had been convicted of 2nd Degree Sexual Assault of a Child, according to court records.
“[He] started touching her so she got up off the couch and went into her mom’s room,” the complaint said about the incident involving the child.
The complaint was filed in December 2022, following an investigation into the allegations by police and child welfare officials.
To spark the investigation, at one point in November of 2021 the defendant is alleged to have repeatedly touched the 20-year-old woman against her will in a Monroe residence. The abuse reportedly began in the car after she, an acquaintance, picked the defendant up for work — and the abuse continued again later at his home. After learning of the alleged unwanted touching of the woman, the child's mother came to believe that her child could also have been a victim.
“(The mother) said that she came to the conclusion that if Galindo had touched [Victim 2] that he could have also touched her daughter,” said the complaint.
Galindo was scheduled for a preconference on Tuesday, Aug. 15; and a status conference on Aug 25. According to court records, Galindo remains in Green County Jail on $50,000 bond.
He faces more than 60 years in prison if convicted of even one charge of first-degree sexual assault.