Predatory Offender Accused of Raping Rochester Teenager
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - Bail has been set at a half million dollars for a predatory offender accused of raping a 14-year-old Rochester girl.
22-year-old Kyle Preston Garrow of Rochester was arraigned Thursday in Olmsted County Court on eight felony charges. The criminal complaint indicates the charges stem from an investigation that was launched by Rochester police on Christmas Day after officers responded to a report from a man and woman who had observed sexually explicit messages and images on a juvenile girl's cell phone and told police that she had been communicating with Garrow via Snapchat.
The responding officers also spoke to a third adult, who stated that another juvenile girl told her that she met Garrow at a nearby park in northwest Rochester and he had sexually assaulted her. The criminal complaint says the officers spoke with the second girl about a week later and she described how the two girls had messaged with Garrow on Snapchat and he supplied them with a vape pen.
According to the charges, one of the girls met with Garrow on three other occasions and that he allegedly sexually assaulted her. The criminal complaint alleges the sexual contact occurred at two different parks in Rochester and at Garrow's apartment after the victim agreed to meet with him to obtain marijuana and other "products." The court document also says the two girls were linked through Facetime on their phones during one of the incidents.
It is also alleged that both girls sent Garrow sexually explicit images and videos of themselves at his request. The charges say the girls also told investigators that Garrow sent them videos showing him having sexual encounters with another female.
Garrow is charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, four counts of soliciting a child to engage in sexual conduct, and two counts of possession of child pornography. He is scheduled to return to court for another hearing later this month.
The criminal complaint states that Garrow was required to register as a predatory offender as a result of an offense that occurred in Wright County in 2018 when he was a juvenile.
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