Juliano Santana, 49, was released from jail on a $30,000 cash bond in 2021 after being charged with six counts of aggravated rape of a child.
Massachusetts authorities released a man on bail who was accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter. He allegedly killed her on Thursday before turning the gun on himself, police said.
Juliano Santana, 49, was released from jail on a $30,000 cash bond in 2021 after being charged with six counts of aggravated rape of a child. The child in this case was his stepdaughter who was 13 years of age at the time.
Santana was ordered by a judge to wear an ankle monitor and have no contact with the victim or anyone under the age of 18 per condition of release, court documents show. The victim was granted a restraining order and the judge set his trial date for July 29, 2024.
On Thursday, Juliano Santana abducted his stepdaughter while she was walking on Great Road near Acton after school. The victim's mother reported her daughter missing to police around 4 pm. Authorities tracked Santana's location via his GPS ankle monitoring device, according to the Middlesex District Attorney.
Police located Santana and the teen inside a parked vehicle outside a condominium off Route 2A. Santana was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and the teen was pronounced dead at the scene.
A redacted police report filed in Sept. 2021 and obtained by the Boston Globe said that the victim and her mother reported Santana to authorities at the Malden police station. The girl accused Santana of sneaking into her bedroom at night and raping her. She said the abuse lasted between Oct. 2019 to Aug. 2021.
According to the report, the girl's mother expressed her anxiety to the police that day, saying she was worried that "Juliano will find out that the police are now involved in this situation and that he would attempt to flee the area, possibly returning to Brazil where he is from."
Police arrested Santana that same day, according to the filing, and he told police during his booking that he had a "medical condition related to what he is being charged with" and asked to see a doctor and a lawyer.
He pleaded not guilty at arraignment and was released on a $30,000 bail after the judge ruled against the $100,000 bail asked by prosecutors.
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