TEXAS CITY — Police on Sunday charged a registered sex offender with raping an 11-year-old girl Friday night.
Troy Norman Volk, 43, faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child, which carries a possible prison term of five to 99 years.
The girl was out with a woman police described as a family friend Friday night, when the woman’s car broke down in the 2500 block of 21st Avenue North.
About 8:30 p.m., a man in a pickup truck pulled up to them and offered assistance, police said. The man connected the two vehicles with jumper cables and told the child to sit in the driver’s seat of his truck and push on the accelerator, according to police reports.
When the car still did not start, the man got into his truck and told the girl to move into the passenger seat. The girl later told police they drove off, under the pretense of finding parts to repair the woman’s car. Instead, the child said, the man drove her to a house in the 2500 block of 19th Avenue North and sexually assaulted her. He then drove her to a nearby bank and drove away, police said.
Police Sgt. Brian Goetchius said investigators used witness accounts to track down the pickup truck and house. Detectives worked ceaselessly from Friday night until mid-afternoon Saturday, tracking down leads.
The girl was back at home this weekend, after police took her to an island hospital for treatment and brought her back Friday night.
Volk was in jail Sunday, under $350,000 bond. Goetchius said the high bond stemmed from the severity of the offense and Volk’s criminal history.
At the time of his arrest, Volk was on parole. In 1985, a Harris County jury convicted him of sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault in the attacks on two 35-year-old women, according to Department of Public Safety records.
Under state law, the board of pardons and paroles could seek to revoke Volk’s parole and return him to prison, based on his arrest, but the agency had made no such move as of Sunday.
