Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman on a footpath in Sandy on Monday afternoon.
The boy has been booked into the Salt Lake Valley Detention Center on suspicion of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, two counts of aggravated assault, aggravated robbery, two counts of forcible sodomy and two counts of obstruction.
Sandy police Sgt. Jason Nielsen said a 911 call came in about 1 p.m., reporting the assault near 10100 South and about 200 East, just east of the Sandy Civic Center TRAX station. The area includes several paths, including the Porter Rockwell Trail, and others that extend from Dewey Bluth Park to Dimple Dell Regional Park.
The victim, a woman about 40 years old, told police she’d been walking on the trail when a man in his 20s forced her off the path and into a wooded area in the gully, where he sexually assaulted her, Nielsen said.
After the attacker left, the woman flagged down passersby, who called police.
The case has been sent to the Salt Lake County district attorney’s office for consideration of formal charges.