On November 14, 2025, St. Paul police officers took a report concerning criminal sexual conduct. BASR, [DOB REDACTED], stated that her uncle by marriage, Abimael Rios Ojeda, [DOB REDACTED], sexually abused her when she was 8 years old. It occurred at the George & Stevens Apartments, [ADDRESS REDACTED]. E., St. Paul, Ramsey County. She was in an apartment there with Ojeda and her 9-year-old female cousin. Nobody else was present. She and Ojeda were in the living room. Her cousin was in another room.
Ojeda started tickling her upper body with both hands. He then placed one of his hands inside of her pants and started touching her vagina. He penetrated her vagina with two fingers. He removed his hand, placed his fingers to his nose and he smelled them. He also went under her shirt with his hand and squeezed both of her breasts. She said that her cousin came out of the other room and Ojeda stopped. BASR said that she told her parents about the incident, but they did not believe her. She then kept the incident to herself for years.
She decided to report the abuse to law enforcement because recently her twin cousins reported that Ojeda sexually touched them. Police spoke to BASR’s fiancé, JG, [DOB REDACTED]. He said that BASR told him early in their relationship that her uncle sexually abused her. BASR stated that Ojeda was a minister in a church. She, her cousins and her aunt went to church officials and reported the abuse. She said that local officials did not believe them. They spoke to a bishop from Iowa. She said that Ojeda was eventually removed from his ministerial duties.
Investigators spoke to Bishop Soto, who was involved in the church investigation. He recalled the meeting with BASR and her cousins in which they reported inappropriate sexual conduct by Ojeda. He met with Ojeda and told him that he would be removed from his duties. He told Ojeda that the matter could not be dismissed as there was more than a single allegation against him by more than one complainant. He stated that the church had also discovered that Ojeda had been convicted of soliciting a prostitute.
He said that Ojeda denied the allegations by family members, and he said that he was wrongfully convicted of the prostitution offense. Police investigators have been unable to interview Ojeda. He has not responded to messages left at his phone numbers. On December 12, 2025, St. Paul Police received a cross-report from child protection services concerning the sexual abuse of 17-year-old female twins, JR and OR. Both reported two months prior to their mother that Ojeda, their uncle, sexually abused them.
Both girls went to Midwest Children’s Resource Center for an evaluation. JR stated that when she was around 7 years old, she would frequently sleep over at her cousins’ home, where Ojeda resided. She woke up to Ojeda in the room where she was sleeping. He asked her if she wanted to “touch it.” He grabbed her hands and made her “grasp” his penis (“dick”). He told her how to move her hand. He told her to go “up and down.” She recalled that this took place in an apartment in St. Paul. She started to recall this incident when she was around 12 years old, but she did not report it right away because she did not want to cause problems in the family.
