Hendersonville man charged with having sex with minor

Staff Reports • February 26, 2010


HENDERSONVILLE — Authorities on Friday arrested a Hendersonville man charged with having sex with a juvenile during an eight-year-span.

Luis Antonio Cruz, 42, of Howard Gap Road, was having sex with a girl, now 18, since she was 10 years old, according to a Henderson County Sheriff’s news release. Cruz was charged with four counts of second-degree rape; two counts of attempted second-degree sex offense; one count of indecent liberties with a child; one count each of indecent liberties with a child and felony child abuse, sexual act.

“Mr. Cruz was identified by our 287(g) unit as being in the country illegally, but not a citizen,â€