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A 12-year-old girl was forced behind a building and raped by an online acquaintance when she tried to meet with the man in person, North Ogden police say.
In charges filed Tuesday in 2nd District Court, police wrote that the girl met the man, 20-year-old Martize DeAngelo Washington, of Ogden, at Smith's grocery store in North Ogden on July 29. The girl said she walked with him to the Intermountain Health Care clinic at 2400 N. 400 East, where he forced her into the building's dumpster enclosure and raped her while she screamed for help, police wrote.
"He told her to stop [screaming] or she would be sorry," police wrote.
The girl then ran back to Smith's, where security video shows her knocking on windows of the fuel center and the front door of the store, both of which were closed for the day. She later went to her home and told her mother she had been raped. Nurse examiners later confirmed evidence of rape and noticed the girl had suffered injuries, police wrote.
The girl said the man's name was Martize; officers found messages between the girl and Martize Washington on Facebook. Although he is 20, the victim said she believed Washington was 18.
Officers found Washington staying at a Motel 6 in Ogden. Investigators found clothes like the ones the girl described, and a glass pipe officers say is used to smoke meth.
Washington said he met with the girl at Smith's and that she "left running away." He first said he had not been at the clinic but later changed his statement, saying he had been in the dumpster enclosure with the girl. He said he hugged the girl and she kissed his neck, but no sexual contact occurred.
Washington was charged with one count of first-degree felony rape of a child. A scheduling hearing is set for Aug. 11.