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Authorities say Juan de los Rios made a 15-year-old girl take her clothes off when he saw her talking with a boy inside the back seat of a car.

A Florida police captain was arrested Friday after authorities said he made a 15-year-old girl remove her clothes to prove she wasn't having sex in the back seat of a car, NBCMiami.com reported. 

Juan de los Rios, 46, is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under the age of 16 by someone over the of age 18. The charge is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine, the station reported. 

The Sun Sentinel reports that de los Rios is an 18-year veteran of the Miramar Police Department. The paper reported that he's been suspended without pay.

According to the arrest affidavit, de los Rios found the girl talking with a 19-year-old boy in the back seat of the car on Jan. 18.

The station reported he asked her if they had been having sex. She told investigators she and the boy were just talking.

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Authorities told NBCMiami.com that de los Rios then told the girl to remove her pants and underwear so he could see if she was telling the truth. The girl told investigators de los Rios "inspected" her with a flashlight and told her to pull down her blouse so he could check for bruising.

The girl's older sister persuaded her to tell their parents, who then reported the incident to Miramar police, the station reported. 

It's not clear if de los Rios knew the girl prior to the incident.  

He was being held in lieu of $30,000 bail, the Sentinel reported. 

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Missing Miramar, Fla. mother of three Vilet Torrez has not been seen or heard from in nine days, and her best friend, whom she has known for 11 years, is worried the case will have a tragic end.

"Each minute and each hour and each day goes by you know, you hold on to some hope," said friend and neighbor Clarissa Garcia.

"But we see these stories all the time and your hope becomes less and less that she might be with us, and I'm thinking this is probably a tragic outcome."

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Torrez disappeared March 30 when she failed to show up to work at Bath Fitter in Doral. She was last seen that day at 11 p.m., visiting a friend. No one has seen or heard from her since – something family and coworkers say is uncharacteristic of her.

Garcia and Torrez's family said the missing woman and her estranged husband Cid Torrez had a troubled marriage.

The children were removed from their father's custody Thursday night following a confidential call to the Florida Abuse Hotline, Mark Riordan, spokesman for the Florida Department of Children and Families, said Friday.

Vilet Torrez's brother, Javier Blanco, said a family member made the call after Cid Torrez threatened to get a gun and "end it all."

"This is not fair treatment, there is no indication that anything untoward has happened to Mr. Torrez's estranged wife," Cid Torrez's attorney, Alvin Entin, said. "There's no indication that he's been involved in any kind of improper activity."

The children are currently staying with Vilet Torrez's mother after a judge granted the family custody Friday.

Garcia said there is no chance her friend needed a break and decided to take off unannounced.

"No, no," Garcia said. "Vilet would never leave those kids. No. I am pretty sure that my friend is with us but not on this earth."

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Miramar Police Department

Vilet Patricia Torrez was last seen on Friday visiting a friend.

Police in Miramar, Fla., say they’re “very much concerned” about the fate of a mother of three who was last seen visiting a friend Friday evening.

Vilet Torrez, 38, was reported missing on Monday afternoon by her family.

“It’s premature to say (foul play) definitely was involved. However, we’re looking at all possibilities,” Miramar police spokeswoman Tania Rues told msnbc.com on Wednesday.

Torrez never showed up for work over the weekend or on Monday, police said.

On Tuesday afternoon, detectives were at her home talking to her husband, Cid Torrez, NBCMiami.com reported. The couple separated about two months ago. He told MBCMiami.com he last saw his wife Friday afternoon when he picked up the children for the weekend.

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"Our relationship, as far as when it comes to the kids – she's a great mother. As for her and me we did have our little differences right at the end. But when it comes to our kids, everything was very, very close," Cid Torrez told NBCMiami.com. "My kids need their mother."

Torrez was last seen leaving a friend’s house on Friday night, police said. She may have driven home, because her car was found at her own residence in a visitor parking spot, police said.

“We’re still very much concerned. There’s an active search looking at all possible leads and angles and we’re searching in a variety of locations,” Rues said.

The couple's three children, ages 12 and under, are staying with the father.

Torrez is described as 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 125 to 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Miramar police at 954-602-4000.

This report includes information from NBCMiami.com.

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