Man raped 11-year-old when mom would go to work, OR officials say. He’s sentenced

A man is going to prison after being convicted of sexually abusing an 11-year-old while her mom was at work, Oregon officials said.

In May 2016, the then-11-year-old girl told her friends that Edgar Ocampo-Reza had been raping her, according to an Aug. 27 news release by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.

The girl’s friends encouraged her to tell a school teacher, and the girl eventually told the school’s counselor about the pattern of abuse, prosecutors said.

Over several years, Ocampo-Reza would sexually assault the girl while her mom was working on Saturdays, the attorney’s office said.

Prosecutors didn’t specify how Ocampo-Reza knew the girl. Attorney information for him was not immediately available.

DNA evidence linked Ocampo-Reza to the crime, but he fled to Mexico after learning about the report, the attorney’s office said.

Multnomah County prosecutors worked with local and international law enforcement and were eventually able to extradite Ocampo-Reza back to Oregon, officials said.

Prosecutors didn’t specify how long Ocampo-Reza was in Mexico before returning to Oregon.

A weeklong trial led to the 53-year-old being found guilty on 12 counts of sodomy and 24 counts of sex abuse, officials said.

He was sentenced to 38 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Portland is the seat of Multnomah County.

This story was originally published August 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM with the headline "Man raped 11-year-old when mom would go to work, OR officials say. He’s sentenced."