A Border Patrol agent has been found guilty of kidnapping a teenage Mexican girl outside of an Arizona school and raping her for hours in his apartment.
Federal prosecutors have said Aaron Thomas Mitchell, 29, approached the 15-year-old girl in his a tactical vest labeled ‘Police’ as she was waiting for classes to start at a middle school in the Arizona border town of Douglas on April 25, 2022, the Tucson Sentinel reports.
He then ‘asked for her papers,’ and ordered the teenager to get into his car. Court records obtained by the Arizona Daily Independent show the teenager crossed the border daily from Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico to Douglas to attend classes.
Mitchell allegedly told the teen he was driving her to a local police station, but instead pulled over just a few miles from her school and handcuffed her hands and feet.
He then told her ‘to do everything he said because he didn’t want to have to hurt her,’ the girl testified at a two-week-long trial, according to the Miami…