Salinas man sentenced to 12 years in Facebook child sex case

24 year old Pedro Ruiz Lopez of Salinas, contacted a 12 year old child on Facebook and committed lewd acts with her.

He’s now been sentenced to 12 years in state prison.

On November 16, 2014, 12-year-old Jane Doe was missing from her bedroom. Her brother checked her Facebook account and found messages between Lopez and Jane Doe. They included instructions from Lopez telling Jane Doe how to sneak out of her home, to tell no one if he is caught, and that he loved her and will take her away to Mexico to get married.

The family frantically searched various locations and located Lopez’s vehicle at a concert venue in a dark parking lot. There, the family discovered Lopez molesting the 12-year-old child in the passenger seat of his car.

The initial responding officer spoke with Lopez who admitted knowing the child’s age and to committing the lewd acts.

Lopez, is now ordered to register as a sex offender for life.