SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — 60-year-old Leon Siess of Sioux Falls is in the Minnehaha County Jail Thursday night, accused of rape, sexual contact with a child and human trafficking. He is held on a $100,000 cash-only bond; court documents say he committed the crimes between 2009 and 2022 and began when the victim was 10 years old. Sioux Falls Police Department spokesperson Sam Clemens says “it appears” that multiple people sexually assaulted the young victim.

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“So as part of the investigation, we learned that the suspect took the victim out of state, and then there was some sexual contact that happened with other people as well,” Clemens said.