Letter to Santa ends sex abuse
times wire reports
Police say a 9-year-old girl’s letter to Santa may have stopped a nightmare of sexual abuse for her and her sister, 10.
For as long as four years, Pharr police say, Andres Enrique Cantu sexually abused the girls in their bedrooms while they slept or did their homework. The 9-year-old’s plea to Santa, written as a school assignment, launched the investigation.
Cantu, 55, is charged with continuous sexual abuse of the children, a felony, and was being held at the Hidalgo County Detention Center.
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