(KIWA) — A Luverne, Minnesota, man faces seven counts of second-degree sexual abuse after the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office accused him of sexually abusing a 13-year-old at a home in Rock Rapids.
In a criminal complaint filed in Lyon County District Court, the sheriff’s office alleges 36-year-old Joseph Oliveira committed a sex act against the child on at least seven occasions in August. Oliveira was arrested in September on felony sexual exploitation charges in a separate Rock Rapids case.
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Each new count is a Class B felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison. A maximum of 175 years on the new charges would apply only if Oliveira were convicted on all seven counts and a judge ordered him to serve the sentences consecutively.
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A preliminary hearing on the new charges is scheduled for Wednesday, November 11. At last report, Oliveira was being held in the Lyon County Jail in Rock Rapids on a $175,000 bond.
