Court documents detail 18-year-old’s arrest after 14-year-old girl reports the two had sex more than 30 times

BLACKFOOT — An 18-year-old man is facing multiple child sexual abuse charges after law enforcement learned that he allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old girl multiple times.

Owenn Pryor has two active cases against him, with the first case involving three felony charges of lewd conduct with a minor. The second case involves felony rape, felony enticement of children and felony burglary.

Idaho’s Crime Repository did not list an attorney for Pryor as of Thursday. If a public attorney is appointed to Pryor, the Idaho State Public Defender’s Office does not comment on active cases.

Court documents in Pryor’s cases involve a 14-year-old, and what spurred the investigation was the girl and Pryor leaving the state of Idaho in February.

The victim’s mother called the Blackfoot Police Department, telling officers the victim had said she was going to a friend’s house. But later saw that the victim was in Honeyville, Utah, at Crystal Hot Springs.

A deputy with the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office found the victim with Pryor.

Another instance when the victim ran away happened in late February, according to court records. It lead officers to discover the victim was in a relationship with Pryor.

The officer had the mother fill out a consent-to-search form for the victim’s phone and left with the device.

Pryor was arrested on a warrant on Feb. 24, and questioned about the victim. During this questioning, Pryor denied being in a relationship with the victim or having sexual relations with her.

During this questioning, Pryor asked for an attorney, and the questioning stopped.

Pryor’s device was confiscated, and a search of it revealed that Pryor had been talking with other women and had multiple inappropriate images of women. Blackfoot police could not identify who sent Pryor those images.

The search also revealed conversations between Pryor and the victim, where Pryor had sent the 14-year-old girl sexually explicit messages.

On Feb. 27, an officer spoke with a witness, who reported that the victim had admitted to her that she had sex with Pryor in January and February.

Because her phone was seized, the witness said that the victim began to delete conversations between her and Pryor from an iPad. The victim was asked to complete a forensic interview but declined.

In March, two more victims approached an officer who was patrolling traffic, and Pryor and the victim were in the backseat of their vehicle.

The witnesses told the officer that they saw Pryor and the victim kissing each other.

In April, the same witnesses approached the same officer to fill out witness forms. During this, the witnesses told the officer that they had dropped off Pryor and the victim at a trailer.

In May, the victim told the officer that she and Pryor had sex when they were dropped off at the trailer.

Officers contacted the trailer’s owner, who told them no one had been in the trailer in a while. Alcoholic beverages were found inside during a search of the trailer. That’s when the owner decided to pursue charges against Pryor.

The conversation the victim had with police in May gave law enforcement an idea of how many times and where she and Pryor had sex.

She believes the total number of times she and Pryor had sex ranged between 30 and 40 times.

The document states that the victim also described times when Pryor would give her drugs to ingest and that she would become incoherent, and Pryor continued to have sex with her.

On May 28, Pryor spoke with a detective and admitted to having sex with the victim three times before he turned 18. He told the detective that since then, the two have not had sex.

He said that it was during the last time that he learned the victim was 14, but he continued to have sex with her.

Pryor is scheduled to appear before Magistrate Judges Scott Andrew or Scott Hansen for a preliminary hearing on Sept. 17.

If found guilty, Pryor could face up to life in prison.

Although Pryor has been accused of a crime, that does not necessarily mean he committed it. Everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.