Arrest made in savage 2014 Mesquite sexual assault of woman with disabilities
At the time, investigators used a sexual assault kit and were able to create a male DNA profile.
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Jorge Post
Police use genealogy DNA database to crack cold case where disabled woman was raped, beaten
27-year-old Jorge Post was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a disabled person. He was 17 at the time of the offense, police say.
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''MESQUITE, Texas — Investigators with the Mesquite Police Department, along with their FBI partners, have announced that a 27-year-old man has been arrested this week in connection to a 2014 cold case where a disabled woman was raped, beaten, and left for dead.
The crime, which a police spokesperson described as 'savage' happened in the 3500 area of Moon on September 2 that year. The disabled woman was sexually assaulted and beaten unconscious, per police, and found by a neighbor who saw the victim lying near the side of her home. ''
''However, police were able to obtain a male DNA profile from a sex assault kit completed by the victim.''
''The department started submitting the profile to third-party genealogy DNA databases in 2016, but no hits there either.
In 2022, that all changed, putting investigators on 27-year-old Jorge Post of Dallas''