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PHARR, Texas – A Texas man has been arrested after a 9-year-old girl wrote to Santa Claus asking that a relative stop touching her and her sister.

The Monitor of McAllen reports that a man from the town of Pharr was arrested Friday and is in the Hidalgo County jail.

A criminal complaint says the girl turned the letter in at Cesar Chavez Elementary School. Authorities interviewed the girl after a school counselor reported the letter.

The complaint says investigators believe the molestation occurred over a period of four years.

The man is charged with continuous sexual abuse of a young child and could face as many as 99 years in prison if convicted.






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Thats so incredibly sad. Definitely nothing a child should have to write "Santa" about. Good for her though that she got what she wanted for Christmas. I ball like a baby every time I read something like this...

I can't understand what goes on in a predators mind when they do something like that to a child. I only wish I could have had the courage to write that same letter to Santa at such a young age. What I would do to wrap my arms around these children to protect them. If only my arms could reach.

Some people are so f'ing sick!

Hopefully now, Santa will grant this little girl her wish. And maybe the publicity will bring in lots of extra toys for her too!

Having been in the same situation, I had never thought about Santa. Might have been a better choice in my case, because going to my mother was futile.

I am thrilled that she had the courage to do what she did. And the more we tell children there are ways of telling someone outside the family the better.

We could have benefited from that sort of education in school when I was a kid, but I went to catholic school where they didn't listen either.

A kid can be willing to tell, but they don't often know who they can trust to tell.