Man drove 13-year-old girl to his cabin and sexually assaulted her, Connecticut cops say
A man is charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl after police said he picked her up from a neighboring state, drove her to his cabin in Connecticut and assaulted her.
Dylan Martin, 21, was arrested “without incident” on Jan. 20 after Connecticut state troopers said they found him at his home in Southington, state police said in a Jan. 21 news release.
He’s charged with second-degree sexual assault, illegal sexual contact with a victim under 16, risk of injury to a minor and third-degree possession of child pornography, according to authorities.
Information on Martin’s legal representation wasn’t listed in court records the afternoon of Jan. 22.
Connecticut State Police began investigating the sexual assault in November, after the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts alerted the agency to the incident and reported it occurred in Haddam, Connecticut, an affidavit shows.
According to the affidavit, the 13-year-old girl’s father reported her as missing to police in Agawam, Massachusetts, on Oct. 28. Agawam is about a 95-mile drive southwest from Boston and a 45-mile drive north of Southington.
The next day, the father arrived at the Agawam Police Department with his daughter, who told police she was “kidnapped the night she went missing,” the affidavit says.
She “refused” to speak with detectives “about the incident and would only speak with her school resource officer,” according to the affidavit.
The girl told her school resource officer she “had been snapchatting a boy named ‘Dylan’” and he picked her up from Massachusetts, then drove her about an hour away to his cabin in Connecticut, the affidavit says.
She reported they engaged in sex acts before “Dylan” drove her home, according to the affidavit.
The girl showed her school resource officer Snapchat messages between she and “Dylan,” the affidavit says. She reported meeting him over Snapchat.
Based on evidence from her cellphone, authorities were able to identify Martin as the person she was messaging, according to the affidavit.
On Nov. 25, detectives arrived at Martin’s home in Southington, where he spoke with them and gave them the passcode to his phone after they seized his device, the affidavit says.
“(Martin) confirmed being in contact with the juvenile victim through his cellphone and also hanging out with her” at “his ... cabin” in Haddam, according to the affidavit.
Haddam is about a 30-mile drive southeast from Southington, where Martin lives.
Martin also told detectives he picked up the girl in his car and “had sexual intercourse” with her on Oct. 28, the affidavit says.
He said he didn’t know the girl was a minor and reported meeting her on a dating application, according to the affidavit.
After Martin was arrested Jan. 20, he was released on a $150,000 bond, state police said.
He’s due in Middletown Superior Court on Jan. 28, according to state police.
Suspected child sexual exploitation can be reported online to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline or by calling the organization’s call center at 1-800-843-5678.
This story was originally published January 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM with the headline "Man drove 13-year-old girl to his cabin and sexually assaulted her, Connecticut cops say."
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