A Mississippi man was arrested Tuesday in the rape of his ex-girlfriend's teenage daughter in northeast Arkansas, police said.
Montrell Hillard, 23, of Coldwater, Miss., faces one count of rape by forcible compulsion, according to a report from the Trumann Police Department.
In November, the mother of a 14-year-old girl told police that her daughter had asked her about taking birth control. When questioned about why she needed birth control, the girl told her mother that Hillard -- who had last lived with her in June 2016, when the girl was 13 -- made her "do everything."
Speaking with an Arkansas State Police investigator in December, the girl said Hillard had sexual contact with her on multiple occasions in Trumann in 2015.
Hillard's interactions with the girl included texting her "strange things about her mother not doing what he wanted," the report said.
On one occasion, he sent her a text telling her to meet him at the "outhouse," a small storage shed behind their apartment, the report said. Hillard then forced her to lie down on a mattress inside and raped her, the girl told authorities.
Hillard threatened to kill her if she told anyone, according to the report.
Additional rapes were reported at a hotel in Memphis, as well as at residences in Tunica, Miss., and Horn Lake, Miss.
On the girl's 14th birthday, Hillard messaged her on Facebook and said he would give her gifts if she sent him pictures of herself naked, police said.
Records show that Hillard was transported Tuesday from the Cook County jail in Chicago to the Poinsett County sheriff's office on a warrant on a rape charge.
Hillard remained at the Poinsett County jail Wednesday afternoon, according to an online inmate roster.
NW News on 04/12/2018