Sex video traced to man charged with preying on Grafton girl

A man who according to a criminal complaint unwittingly tipped authorities off to his 2022 sexual assault of a 14-year-old Grafton girl he met online by posting a video on a social media site has been arrested and is being held in the Ozaukee County jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Samael Torres, 25, of Mount Pleasant, was charged Monday with using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, sexual exploitation of a child, two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 16 and two counts of child enticement, all felonies.