A 9-year-old girl who ran away from home on the first of June told police when she was found that a man known to her had sexually abused her five years earlier, according to court documents.Â
She told officers 44-year-old Ramon Del Angel Hernandez sexually assaulted her when she was 4 years old and again when she was 5, the document says.
The girl told her mother about the assault when she was about 5 or 6 years old, the document says.Â
On July 8, Lincoln police contacted Hernandez, who denied the allegations.Â
Prosecutors charged him Tuesday with first- and third-degree sexual assault of a child. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of the first charge and up to three years if convicted on the second.
Judge John Freudenberg set his bond at $1 million.Â