Police: Men face sex trafficking charges after attacks on two teens

Two men have been arrested after two teenage girls were forced at gunpoint to go a house where they were raped repeatedly last week, police said.

The girls, who are 15 and 16 and were both runaways, were walking near 21st and Hydraulic at about 10 p.m. Wednesday when they were offered a ride by a man in a car, Capt. Jeff Weible said. After the girls got into the car, the 38-year-old man who told them his name was “Nick” pulled a gun on them.

He drove them to a house in the 2400 block of East Piatt, where he and a 54-year-old man threatened the girls if they did not have sex with them, Weible said. The girls complied after being threatened.

The 15-year-old girl slipped out of the house early Friday morning and ran to a neighbor’s house to seek help, Weible said. Someone called 911 and officers went to the house on Piatt, where they found the 16-year-old and arrested the 54-year-old man, identified in arrest and jail records as Roderick Martin.

The man who picked up the girls from 21st Street, 38-year-old Jordan Lewis, was arrested at 1:45 a.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of North Madison, police records show.

Lewis and Martin are both being held on $150,000 bond on suspicion of numerous offenses. Martin’s alleged crimes include aggravated human trafficking, kidnapping, aggravated indecent liberties, rape and commercial sexual exploitation of a child.

Lewis is being held on suspicion of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, rape, aggravated human trafficking and aggravated indecent solicitation of a child, records show.

The case will be presented to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday, Weible said.

Neither of the teen victims are from Wichita, he said.

This story was originally published November 9, 2015 at 2:54 PM with the headline "Police: Men face sex trafficking charges after attacks on two teens."