Hobart man, 24, charged after sex with underage teen
Gabriel Fragoso, Jr., 24, was charged Friday with four counts of sexual misconduct with a minor.
He has not been apprehended. When arrested, he is ordered held on a $7,500 cash bond.
Cedar Lake Police Det. Marcus McDowell wrote that a Hanover Central High School police officer reported that the girl was assaulted by a man, 24.
Police subpoenaed records from Discord — an online messaging app.
Fragoso agreed to pick up the girl in late November at the Cedar Lake library before they went to Lemon Lake Park. He told the girl his name was 'Dave.'
'I had soo much fun tonight,' she later messaged.
The girl later told a Special Victim's Unit detective they went to Lemon Lake Park and walked around. She got cold, they went to the bathrooms.
When the detective asked what happened, the girl was upset, embarrassed, and didn't want to elaborate. Later in the interview, she appeared to allude to a sex act.
They went to a Jewel parking lot, likely in Crown Point, where they got in the back seat. Fragoso repeated asked her to have sex with him. The girl later said she felt 'scared' and had little choice.
Later in December, the girl lured Fragoso to her house where her family, at minimum, screamed at him in their garage. The girl wasn't entirely sure what happened.
Fragoso got an lawyer and refused to answer the investigator's questions.
mcolias@post-trib.com
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