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Tomas Ortiz-Juarez, (Hall County Department of Corrections, Courtesy)

GRAND ISLAND — The case of a Grand Island man charged with sexual assault of a child after a 15-year-old girl was found to be pregnant has been bound over to district court.

Tomas Ortiz-Juarez, 37, is charged with first degree sexual assault of a child, a Class 1B felony.

After a preliminary hearing was held in Hall County Court on May 22, probable cause was found, and the case was bound over to Hall County District Court.

After a request for a continuance, an arraignment date has been set for June 17 at 9 a.m.

According to an affidavit submitted in Hall County Court, an officer with the Grand Island Police Department was dispatched to CHI Health St. Francis in reference to a sexual assault during the evening of April 7.

The officer contacted a 15-year-old girl who was pregnant and stated that Ortiz-Juarez, her stepfather, has been sexually assaulted her since April 2024, according to the affidavit.

Ortiz-Juarez was booked into the Hall County Department of Corrections.