{"id":33173,"date":"2025-02-13T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/man-in-us-illegally-wanted-for-allegedly-groping-7-year-old-texas-girl-on-her-way-home-from-school\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:00:09","slug":"man-in-us-illegally-wanted-for-allegedly-groping-7-year-old-texas-girl-on-her-way-home-from-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/man-in-us-illegally-wanted-for-allegedly-groping-7-year-old-texas-girl-on-her-way-home-from-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in US illegally wanted for allegedly groping 7-year-old Texas girl on her way home from school"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man with a lengthy criminal history who was previously on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold is on the run after being accused of groping a 7-year-old Texas girl<\/a> as she walked home from school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carlos Jose Ayala Morales, 43, has been charged with felony attempted indecency with a child, the Houston Police Department said. He is accused of grabbing the girl Jan. 27 while she was on her way home from her elementary school, Fox Houston<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The girl and her mother told the news outlet she was walking behind her older sister and a friend. They said the man ran up, groped her<\/a> and ran away. The girl didn’t scream because she was in shock and told her older sister when they got home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“A man came behind me, and he touched my private parts,” the girl told the station.<\/p>\n

“I hope he’s caught and put away much longer, so he can’t hurt other children,” her mother said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Morales has a lengthy criminal history<\/a>. In 2017, he was charged with four counts of indecency with a child and evading arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the time, police believed Morales, who they called Ayala, was linked to “at least 10 sexual assault incidents in the northeast Houston and Harris County areas.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Authorities were investigating a string of “sexual assaults of school-aged juvenile females, 7-15 years of age, as they traveled to and from school,” according to the news outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Ayala would come up behind the victims and inappropriately touch<\/a> them through their clothing,” a police news release states. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In one incident, Ayala attempted to abduct one of the victims, a 7 year-old female, as she walked home from school with her 9-year-old brother,” police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Reading that made me so scared, because that could have been [my child],” the victim’s mother said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When he was arrested in 2017, ICE filed a detainer request for Morales, a Honduran citizen<\/a>, which was lifted when he was convicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice told FOX 26 Ayala was transferred to prison to serve concurrent seven-year sentences for indecency with a child by exposure, three counts of indecency with a child, evading arrest, detention with a vehicle and burglary.<\/p>\n

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In February 2024, he was released into ICE custody.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to ICE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man with a lengthy criminal history who was previously on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold is on the run after being accused of groping a 7-year-old Texas girl as she walked home from school.\u00a0 Carlos Jose Ayala Morales, 43, has been charged with felony attempted indecency with a child, the Houston … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}