A Texas man has been arrested on sexual assault charges after his victim was caught watching porn at school.
According to an arrest affidavit, the victim, a 9-year-old girl, told teachers exactly what happened after she was caught searching for pornography at school.
The affidavit revealed that a teacher confronted the girl about the sexual assault after noticing her searching for porn on a school-issued iPad the previous day.
When questioned, the young girl explained that a friend had been helping her search for porn to help her figure out exactly what 31-year-old Anthony Garay had done to her.
After school officials contacted authorities about the allegations, investigators interviewed the 9-year-old girl about Garay.
According to the arrest affidavit, the girl told police that Garay had been performing sex acts on her since she was 7 or 8 years old, and he also did the same thing to her sister.
Police have also revealed that Garay, a relative of the girl, had been under investigation by Child Protective Services, but it remains unclear exactly what that investigation uncovered.
According to FOX 29, Garay was arrested on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
KSAT has since shared this disturbing story on Facebook, where many commenters actually blamed Child Protective Services for failing to report Garay sooner.
“Cps seems to focus on all the wrong people. They are hard on the innocent and and super lenient and almost non-existent on actual predators. Almost makes you question why they even receive federal funds to begin with,” one commenter wrote.
“Child protective services is a joke! They set up a "safety plan" to assure a child's safety. Supposedly someone is assigned that always has to be around when the person who's had allegations against them of being harmful in whatever manner. These things are not thoroughly checked on and are not working,” another added.
Others, however, made it clear that CPS is not to blame here.
“Everyone talks about CPS like they have the authority to do whatever they want, when in reality they need a judges and/or law enforcement permission to do almost anything. Sitting at home on your phone and playing the blame game helps those kids way less than CPS investigators do,” one woman wrote.
“I think everyone who blames CPS should get a degree and work there. Maybe you can do a better job,” another added. “If family members would step up and be there more watching these kids or taking them out of these situations there would be less of this. The hush hush keep this in the family stuff needs to stop!”
