Raleigh man charged again 2 years after his conviction for raping teen. Here’s why
Two years after a Wake County jury found him guilty of repeatedly raping a teenage girl over several years, a Raleigh man was arrested on additional charges Tuesday, according to court documents.
Ceasar Arenas, 62, is charged with statutory rape of a child by an adult, statutory sex offense with a child by an adult and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, his arrest warrant states. He’s accused of raping a 10-year-old Dec. 1, 2015, according to the warrant.
The Wake County Sheriff’s Office issued the warrant Feb. 28, but Arenas is still incarcerated at Maury Correctional Institution in Greene County on a 2023 conviction, so he wasn’t taken to Wake County until Tuesday, court records show.
That 2023 conviction stemmed from Arenas’ repeated rapes and assaults of a girl, beginning when she was 12 and continuing until she was 15, according to court documents. Arenas was arrested in 2020 after the victim reported the abuse to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, documents show.
A jury found Arenas guilty April 25, 2023, of two counts of a statutory sex offense with a person 13, 14 or 15 years old and two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, according to court documents. He was sentenced to a minimum of 200 months and a maximum of 249 months in prison, with his projected release date set for April 10, 2037, prison records show.
The victim testified in the case that Arenas warned her not to tell anyone about the assaults, stating he’d sometimes tell her “if she told anyone, he would do something to her ‘little brothers’” and that “no one would believe her if she told anyone,” according to court documents.
The Wake County Sheriff’s Office and a social worker previously investigated Arenas in 2011 after the mother of one of the victim’s friends reported the abuse. The victim denied the allegations at the time out of fear because Arenas and others were present when a deputy and social worker asked her about the abuse, she testified in court.
But the victim’s sister encouraged her to come forward to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, which she did in July 2020, court documents show.
Arenas remained in the Wake County jail without bail as of Wednesday morning.
