Oakland father used son’s phone to track down the child’s suspected rapist, police say
By Nate Gartrell
Published on March 21, 2026.
Police in Oakland have revealed that an 11-year-old boy was raped by a man he met online, Ruben Aguilar, who allegedly learned the boy's address and picked him up from his home. The victim's father used his son's phone to track down the suspect, posing as the boy and posing as him to identify him at a gas station. Aguilar now faces 17 felonies, including multiple counts of forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, using a minor for sex acts, and one count of child pornography. The suspect allegedly sexually assaulted the boy several times and then deleted their messages and paid the child $25.
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