Man arrested after police say he raped a teenager and threatened to kill her family

MALAD — A 20-year-old man was arrested aft constabulary opportunity he threatened to termination a 13-year-old girl’s family and past raped her.

Joseph Michael Uryan Gunderson is charged pinch 3 counts of felony rape and 1 count of lewd behaviour pinch a kid nether 16.

Gunderson is besides charged successful a 2nd lawsuit pinch misdemeanor intersexual battery.

Court documents opportunity connected Aug. 27, an Oneida County Sheriff’s detective responded to Malad Middle School for a study that a 20-year-old man was asking 2 children for naked photos.

The detective said pinch a 13-year-old victim, who said Gunderson added her connected Snapchat successful April.

According to nan victim, Gunderson asked her to “hang retired pinch (him) aft midnight.” The unfortunate stated she felt “like she couldn’t opportunity nary to him because she felt for illustration she was being forced to.”

The unfortunate told nan detective that Gunderson said he was “going to bargain Monster and condoms,” but she did not judge him.

Gunderson past allegedly picked nan unfortunate up and drove them “to nan mediate of nowhere” and began sexually assaulting nan victim.

The unfortunate says he past drove them to his house, wherever he said they would watch a movie. When they arrived, Gunderson reportedly led her to nan basement, wherever he raped her. Afterward, nan unfortunate says she went location and didn’t show anyone because she was scared.

In 1 instance, nan unfortunate says Gunderson told nan unfortunate he wanted to ablution pinch her. She backed herself into a area successful his chamber and he allegedly “drug her down nan stairs and into basement into nan bath and forced her to ablution pinch him,” according to tribunal documents.

Police reports opportunity nan unfortunate was raped aggregate times betwixt April and June erstwhile she stopped communicating pinch him, but Gunderson continued to effort and interaction her astatine nan extremity of July and again successful nan past week of August.

The unfortunate told nan detective that Gunderson was besides talking to her thirteen-year-old friend and he asked nan friend to do intersexual acts pinch him.

On Aug. 30, nan unfortunate participated successful a forensic interview, wherever she stated nan assaults happened successful Gunderson’s relative’s basement. According to nan victim, she would sneak retired of her location and meet Gunderson successful his motortruck down nan road.

This unfortunate stated she felt “threatened and forced” by Gunderson to bent retired pinch him and do inappropriate things because he said he would “do thing to her sister aliases dad” if she did not nonstop him intersexual photos.

According to constabulary reports, Gunderson threatened to termination nan victim’s dada if she did not “hang retired pinch him” and still consistently tried to interaction her done Snapchat, TikTok, texting, and Instagram, moreover aft blocking him.

When asked what made her disclose what happened, nan unfortunate says she told a teacher, who reported nan alleged intersexual battle to a schoolhouse counselor.

A warrant was issued for Gunderson’s apprehension connected Sept. 13, and he was booked into nan Oneida County Jail connected nan aforesaid time pinch a enslaved of $50,000.

Gunderson was arraigned connected Monday, but further tribunal hearings person not yet been scheduled. If convicted, Gunderson could look up to life successful prison.

Though Gunderson has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until they are proven guilty.