Police: Teen’s rapist vowed to shoot her family

A Sanford man is currently being held by authorities after police say he raped a 15-year-old girl by threatening to shoot her family if she resisted him, an arrest report shows.

The report said the case against Arsenio Nelson Evans, 28, began when Sanford police got a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, alerting them to a suspicious conversation that had taken place on Facebook Messenger.

Messages between a user with the screen name “Buddy Heffner” and the teen girl indicated “that there was sexual activity and possible physical harm and threat of kidnapping,” the report states.

Police identified and interviewed the girl, who reportedly said Evans had sexually battered her five times inside his home, threatening to shoot her or her family if she’d didn’t comply.

“The child victim advised that she was scared and believed that if she did not do as Mr. Arsenio Evans demanded, that he would in fact harm her or and/or her family,” the report said.

Evans was arrested at him home on Wyndham Peak Circle and booked into the Seminole County jail. In an interview, he denied having had any sexual contact with the girl, the report shows.

Evans faces charges of sexual battery on a victim 12 or older with a threat of a deadly weapon and aggravated child abuse. He is being held without bail. Evans is also on probation in Pennsylvania for burglary and criminal trespassing charges, records show.