A Mesquite, Texas, woman is finally getting justice for the brutal rape and beating she suffered almost 10 years ago.
WFFA reports, Wednesday, Jorge Post, 27 was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a disabled person. Police say that Post was only 17 when the crime happened.
On September 2, 2014, in the 3500 area of Moon, the victim was found lying near her home sexually assaulted and beaten to the point of unconsciousness. The police described the crime as “savage” with the woman suffering from fractures throughout her face.
A neighbor, Otis Goins, had lived on Moon since 1967 and told WFFA, “It was terrible; nothing like that had ever happened.”
“Everybody was out in the street talking–they couldn’t believe what happened. It was such a heinous crime; he beat her and beat her. I’m surprised she wasn’t killed.”
At the time of the incident, investigators surveyed the area for weeks but found nothing leading them to the perpetrator. A sexual assault kit did render DNA, but the offender was not in the database.
In 2016, the department submitted the DNA to a third-party genealogy DNA database. It was not until 2022 when a new form of investigative genetic genealogy was used that resulted in a lead, Jorge Post.
FBI began surveilling Post in April and was able to obtain a Coke can be tossed into a trash can for further DNA testing.
The DNA testing on the Coke can had come back as a match to the DNA sexual assault kit that was done in 2014, according to Fox 4.
According to an affidavit, Post lived one block from the crime scene in 2014. Post had since moved to the Dallas area.
Post has been transferred to the Dallas County Jail after initially being detained in the Mesquite jail on a $5,000,000 bond.
Mesquite County Police wrote, “We hope this arrest provides some relief for the victim from the traumatic event she had to endure.
“The Mesquite Police Department would like to express our gratitude to the Dallas FBI office for their partnership and assisting in seeking justice for the victim.”
[Feature Photo: Mesquite PD]
