Houston Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Mission Viejo Girl

MISSION VIEJO, CA — A 22-year-old Houston man stands accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Mission Viejo girl after the man and youth were discovered at a motel in Los Angeles last Friday, City News Service reported.

Nathan Williams faces several charges, including: luring a child with the intent to commit a sex crime, meeting a minor to commit lewd conduct, statutory rape, sexual penetration with a foreign object with a victim under 16 and oral copulation of a person under 16, court records reported.

Williams is currently behind bars and is being held on $100,000 bail. Williams is scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana Sept. 16, City News Service reported.

The 15-year-old girl was found with Nathan Williams, 22, a Texas resident who she had met online Aug. 27 after she was pronounced missing earlier that morning. The Orange County Sheriff's Department said Williams had traveled from his resident state of Texas to meet with the youth.

The pair had been "conversing online through an app called Discord," said Carrie Braun of the Orange County Sheriff's Department Friday. Williams "traveled here to meet her and she was picked up yesterday in a rideshare vehicle, according to the investigation," Braun said.

City News Service contributed to this report.