14yo Girl Killed After Being Raped By Father And Step-grandfather For Months

🥺 14yo girl killed by her father and step grandfather who had been repeatedly raping her for months or longer. She had not been out of bed since November. They were raping an 11yo neighbors child too. Evidence caught on their own indoor cameras.

ABC30 News, 3/8/24: GOSHEN, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Goshen father and step-grandfather have been arrested for the death and ongoing sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office says the girl died in the hospital on January 16 after her family found her unresponsive at home.

At the time, deputies got a call from a young girl that she had a hard time breathing.

When deputies arrived at the home, the two men told deputies a girl wasn't there.

But hours later, the men called law enforcement back to the home, and that's when they found the teenager unresponsive in a back bedroom.

Deputies reported finding several signs that showed the girl had died from severe neglect.

They add that the teenage girl had wounds all over her body.

"Just the condition that the child, because 14-year-olds are children, was found in was a gruesome indicator of what had happened to her," said Ashley Ritchie with the Tulare County Sheriff's Office

During an investigation, detectives say they learned the girl had been repeatedly sexually abused by her father, 50-year-old Raymond Pena, and step-grandfather, 64-year-old Brett Minkler.

"It was her own father who sexually abused her for months, probably longer than that," Ritchie. "Left her like an animal on the bed to die and her own step-grandfather."

Deputies also learned the 14-year-old had not been out of bed since November.

"There were surveillance cameras that were found inside the home," said Ritchie, "which were the family's surveillance cameras that caught a lot of the disturbing things that happened inside before the girl died."

Investigators say Pena and Minkler had also been sexually abusing another 11-year-old girl.

"She's a neighbor that frequented the home," said Ritchie.

Detectives say they are still working to identify other girls who frequently spent time at the suspects' home.