City detectives file charges against 3 men in crimes against children

FORT WAYNE, Ind. --The past two weeks have been busy ones for the Fort Wayne Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Section.

This month, detectives arrested Rigoberto Jimenez Mandujano, 28, for rape and another charge involving sexual abuse of a 17-year-old autistic girl, court documents said.

Rigoberto Jimenez Mandujano, charged with child rape and another charge

On May 9, the victim was crying in her school library. When she was asked why, she said she was “dirty” because of what happened at her grandmother’s house.

Mandujano allegedly touched her on her face, lips and private areas the day before.

According to a probable cause affidavit submitted by Detective M. Brown, Mandujano told the victim he wanted her to lie down with him in her grandmother’s bedroom and then committed sex acts.

“With her limited mental capacity, she was not able to tell the defendant ‘no,’” court documents said. Then it was revealed that the sexualized behavior had been going on since she was in elementary school.

Apparently, Mandujano told the victim he loved her and “this is what loves means,” court documents said.

After a DNA warrant was issued, Mandujano spoke to police. He admitted to all of the sex acts, but claimed that the victim led him to commit those acts. When he was asked how many times the encounters had occurred, he guessed maybe five times a year.

When detectives asked him about one certain sex act, he again claimed the victim “wanted it,” but he didn’t want to continue it; that he had tried to stop it, but he “just felt so weak,” court documents said. Then he told them he wanted to stop it, but “he just feels so alone.”

In an arrest this week, Christopher Brian Davidson, 42, of Fort Wayne was charged with two counts of child exploitation and one count of voyeurism.

Christopher Brian Davidson allegedly placed a pen camera in a bathroom to spy on a girl.

From January through September, 2024, Davidson is accused of placing a pen camera in the bathroom so he could watch his girlfriend’s daughter while she was showering and in the bathroom, according to a probable cause written by Det. John Chambers.

His girlfriend’s son found the pen camera and confronted Davidson as he sat watching television with his mother.

Davidson admitted that he’d placed the pen camera in the bathroom to record her because “he had not been intimate for a while,” court documents said.

The probable cause indicates he faced a bond of $12,500 Davidson has a court hearing on June 20.

 A third probable cause was filed in the case of 20-year-old Johnny J. Richard, Jr., who is accused of child molesting a 13-year-old girl last July.

Johnny J. Richard, Jr. is accused of child molesting.

The alleged assault was reported by an adult who found the victim’s cell phone and then messages indicating that the victim had been molested and/or raped, court documents said.

And one of the nights, the adult said she heard a noise, got up and saw Richard coming out of the victim’s bedroom.

The victim was interviewed at the Dr. Bill Lewis Center for Children who said she told Richard 'no' as he continued his assaults, court documents said. 

A detective found one message from the victim to another individual that read: “(He) took my V card.”

Richard declined to be interviewed, according to Det. Charles Volz.

Richard was being held at the jail, but as of Friday was released on $25,000 bond. His next court hearing is June 2.