A Utah man has been arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and rape after a missing teenage girl from Arizona was found in his basement.
Jordan Sorensen, 26, was arrested last week on a probation violation pending an investigation, KNXV reports.
New charging document filed in the case this week say Sorenson made contact with the 14-year-old girl via her TikTok account and then continued the connection through Snapchat. He got her address when he asked to send her food through a delivery app.
And then, on January 27, he drove from his West Valley City home to Arizona to meet the girl. He cut off an ankle monitor she was wearing at the time with scissors. The charging documents say she agreed to meet with him but did not want to leave with him. He told her, however, that ‘bad things’ would happen if she didn’t “promise not to leave him or stop talking to him.”
The documents say he took her to an Arizona motel and raped her before taking her back to Utah. They stopped in Las Vegas, where he bought the girl new clothes and a new phone.
Sorenson told the girl to stay in his bedroom, lie about her age and hide from a probation officer and his roommates. The girl said she was afraid to leave and told investigators he raped her every night.
“[The teen] did not feel safe with Sorenson and wanted to go home but did not feel like she could leave,” documents state.
Agents from several Utah agencies rescued the girl after they were tipped off about Sorenson’s connection with her, according to Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. Reyes said Sorensen was convicted in June 2020 of first-degree felony aggravated sexual extortion of an adult and is on the state’s sex offender registry.
Agents with the state’s Division of Adult Probation and Parole launched an investigation with the human trafficking unit from Reyes’ office. They found Sorenson at his workplace then went to his home and searched it, finding the teen in his basement.
Sorenson is currently in jail in Salt Lake County without bail, KNXV said.
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[Featured image: Jordan Sorenson/Utah Department of Corrections]
