Amador County – The Amador County Sheriff’s Department arrested a man last week for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl approximately three years ago.

Amador County Undersheriff Jim Wegner released details of the investigation Monday, saying ACSO detectives last week arrested Raymond Joseph Chase, now 56, on charges of “lewd acts with a child victim 14 or 15 years old with the suspect being at least 10 years older” and charges of “oral copulation of a victim under 16 years old with the suspect over the age of 21.”

On Wednesday Nov. 16, Wegner said, “Amador County Child Protection Services reported to the Amador County Sheriff’s Office that a 17-year-old female disclosed she had been sexually assaulted by an adult male associated with her family.”

Wegner said an “Amador County Sheriff’s Deputy and Detectives responded to Amador High School to contact the victim. An investigation was conducted, which determined that approximately three years prior, when the victim was 14 years old, she had been orally copulated multiple times by an approximately 53-year-old male at the family home.”

Wegner said “detectives contacted and interviewed the suspect, who subsequently confessed to the crimes.” Chase was arrested and booked into the Amador County Jail with bail set by Superior Court Schedule at $40,000.

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