Abducted Child Was Sexually Assaulted : Crime: Ventura County will seek the extradition of the kidnaping suspect from Las Vegas. The Port Hueneme girl and her mother have been reunited.

A 7-year-old Port Hueneme girl who was abducted by her housemate was sexually assaulted during the ordeal, police said Saturday.

A physical exam performed in Las Vegas, where the child was wrested from her captor on Friday, showed that she had been molested, said Detective Dennis Fitzgerald of the Port Hueneme Police Department. Before the examination, police were unsure whether the girl had been assaulted, he said.

Justo Dungca, 34, is being held without bail in the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas on suspicion of first-degree kidnaping with injury, sexual assault on a minor under 14, attempted murder and child endangerment, a jail spokeswoman said.

Dungca refused to talk to Port Hueneme detectives when they flew to Las Vegas to interview him Saturday and will not willingly return to California, Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald said the Port Hueneme Police Department will seek to extradite Dungca to California, where other charges, such as sexual assault and false imprisonment with violence, may be filed.

“If this is the act of a docile, caring individual, I would hate to see what he did when he got angry,” Fitzgerald said.

Chief Bob Anderson of the Port Hueneme Police Department said the ordeal began Thursday when Dungca, who lived in the same house in the 600 block of Bard Road as the victims, bound and gagged the little girl and her mother and held them captive in his bedroom. Anderson said Dungca sexually assaulted the woman while the child was forced to remain in the room.

He then forced the two into the woman’s car and drove to Anaheim, where he tried to meet his ex-girlfriend, Anderson said. The woman was able to escape at an Anaheim gas station by claiming she had to use the restroom, Anderson said. But she was unable to free her child, who remained in the car when Dungca drove away, Anderson said.

Dungca was discovered by Las Vegas police Friday morning when he tried to sell the car he had allegedly stolen from the woman, said Lt. Greg Jolley of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. When he saw police, Dungca grabbed the girl in a stranglehold and banged her head against the floor before officers could rescue her, Jolley said.

The little girl, who was treated at a Las Vegas Hospital, was reunited with her mother Friday and both are back in Ventura County, Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald said he was unsure of Dungca’s motive. However, he said the acts may have stemmed from Dungca’s belief that the woman forced his girlfriend to move out of the house in Port Hueneme.

“I think it was a totality of circumstances,” Fitzgerald said. “I think in the breakup with his girlfriend, it was his perception that the woman had something to do with it.”

Dungca, who is unemployed, had moved into his brother’s house with his girlfriend and her two children in November. They lived there with Dungca’s brother, Theodore Dungca, and his sister-in-law Rosita Dungca. The woman, who works with Rosita Dungca assembling computer parts at a Newbury Park firm, rented a bedroom for $300 a month that she shared with her 7-year-old daughter.

But the girlfriend moved out of the house in June, calling the police for protection when she removed her belongings because she said that Dungca physically abused her, Fitzgerald said.

The girlfriend is now in hiding from Dungca because she fears him, Fitzgerald said.

On Saturday, Rosita Dungca, 33, said Dungca had believed that his girlfriend moved out because of a dispute she had with the woman over the care of the children living in the house.

“The girlfriend didn’t like her,” Dungca said of the woman.

Rosita Dungca said Dungca’s girlfriend and the woman argued over care of the three children living in the house. The woman complained that the girlfriend’s two children were eating the food she had bought for her 7-year-old daughter, Rosita Dungca said.

“She was blaming the girlfriend for taking things,” Rosita Dungca said. “There was commotion and arguing.”

Also, Rosita Dungca said, the woman relied on the girlfriend, who was unemployed, to baby-sit the 7-year-old but did not pay her for it, Dungca said. That made the girlfriend angry, she said.

After the girlfriend moved out in June, Justo Dungca became much more quiet, she said.

“She was the only woman for him,” Rosita Dungca said.

Rosita Dungca said Dungca, whom friends call J.D. or Junior, was the fourth oldest of eight children born in Guam. Other family members who asked not to be identified said Dungca joined the U.S. Army for 10 years after he left Guam in 1975. Since then, he has worked as a truck driver, a cabinetmaker and an assembly-line production worker, they said.

But Rosita Dungca, who said she was at work during the alleged incident and said she saw no signs of a scuffle when she returned, said she was surprised to find out that her brother-in-law is accused of the crimes. “I don’t know if he turned cuckoo or something,” she said.