Undocumented worker faces child molestation charges

05:39 PM EDT on Monday, March 17, 2008

Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - A man accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl faced an Oldham county judge. Jorge Avila, 21, is charged with two counts of child molestation for a crime that dates back to 2005. He was arraigned in court on those charges Monday.

This investigation spanned across two states and two years. The alleged victim was 7-years-old when she first accused her mother’s boyfriend of molesting her back in 2005 in Jeffersonville, Indiana. But she withdrew her claim shortly after. But now new evidence has put Jorge Avila behind bars.

“After a year and a half, two years, it came to be that she had some type of venereal disease she had come into contact with,â€