Castle Rock man convicted in child sexual assault case after escape attempt
A Castle Rock jury convicted Jorge Alberto Campos on five child-sex-assault counts after he cut off his ankle monitor and fled toward Mexico.
A Douglas County jury found Jorge Alberto Campos, 45, guilty of five counts of sexual assault on a child after a case that ended with him running instead of facing the verdict in court. Campos, of Castle Rock, had cut off his ankle monitor and left it in a dumpster near his home before authorities tracked him to southern New Mexico.
Prosecutors said the abuse involved his current girlfriend’s daughter and stretched from 2021 to 2023, beginning when the girl was 11. Investigators said Campos warned the child not to tell her mother and used an app to control her phone as part of the abuse and punishment. The girl later disclosed what happened, and investigators said her examination found evidence consistent with her account. Her mother initially believed the allegations had been made up.
Castle Rock police arrested Campos in May 2024 after a nurse at Castle Rock Hospital alerted officers to a sexual assault victim receiving treatment. From there, the case moved through the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office and Douglas County court system, where jurors ultimately convicted him on all five counts tied to the pattern of abuse.
Campos was later captured in Chaparral, New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico border after a citizen recognized him from news coverage and called 9-1-1. Authorities said he had been seen boarding a bus headed toward Mexico before his arrest at an Allsup’s gas station. The effort drew in the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Castle Rock Police Department, U.S. Marshals Colorado Violent Offender Task Force, New Mexico State Patrol and Otero County Sheriff’s Office. Prosecutors also said Campos had some form of work authorization but no legal status to be in the United States.
Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly said Campos should never have been out of custody and called the system broken. District Attorney George Brauchler praised the cooperation among local, state, federal and civilian helpers and condemned Campos’ flight from justice.
Sentencing is set for May 29, and Campos faces mandatory prison time and up to a life sentence. After the verdict, the district attorney’s office later corrected its earlier statement about when it learned Campos had removed his ankle monitor, saying Douglas County Pre-trial Services had emailed the office the night before and also informed Castle Rock police.
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