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"The Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Department said a 13-year-old boy from the Espanola area is facing charges for inappropriately touching and having sex with a 7-year-old girl in his family.Officials said the teenager admitted he raped the girl because of peer pressure at school.The teenager is in a detention center, facing a serious crime, but police are jumping to his defense, saying he's a victim, too.\"This case is all about bullying, and because of the bullying, now we have two victims,\" Sheriff Thomas Rodella said.The sheriff said the boy admitted to his actions, and then explained to police he did it because other kids at school were brutally teasing and tormenting him for being a virgin.People in this community, especially parents, said they're stunned by how powerful bullying can be.\"It's just sad that a 13-year-old would be tortured that much that they would turn and do something like that to their own family member,\" resident Kathryn Martinez said.The boy was taken to the juvenile detention center in Santa Fe County on Thursday night, deputies said.A judge has until Tuesday to have a hearing and decide whether or not he should stay there or return home.The teen is facing two counts of criminal sexual contact and one count of criminal sexual penetration of a minor."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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