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CENTENNIAL — An Arapahoe County prosecutor on Tuesday suggested during a court hearing that five teens accused in the sexual assault of an Englewood High School freshman girl could be charged as adults.
The suggestion came during an appearance for Daylon Benjamin Hill, 19, of Englewood, the sixth person and only adult charged in the alleged assault during a house party late last month.
Hill flipped his shaggy hair and yawned as he waited shackled and in an orange jail uniform before his preliminary demand hearing.
Hill has been charged with sexual assault while overcoming a victim’s will, child sex assault, sexual exploitation of a child, sexual exploitation of a child with intent to sell and/or publish and a violent sex crime. He is being held at the Arapahoe County jail in lieu of $50,000 bond.
Hill and four boys — two 16-year-olds and two 15-year-olds — have been arrested in the case. A sixth suspect, also a juvenile, remained at-large last week, although Englewood police said his arrest was imminent. On Tuesday night, CBS4 reported that the sixth suspect has been apprehended, but police would not confirm that.
The juvenile suspects have not been identified because of their age.
The girl told police she was the victim of a series of sexual assaults outside a drug- and alcohol-fueled party Jan. 25. The girl said they ignored her repeated pleas to stop assaulting her. The five accused boys are students at Englewood public schools; some are classmates of the girl.
