DENVER—The mother of a 12-year-old girl found dead last week tried to break up a relationship between her daughter and an 18-year-old man charged with having a sexual relationship with the girl, according to court documents released Wednesday.
The man, Robert Laurencio Montoya, is not a suspect in Kayleah Wilson’s death. Police say the sexual assault charges are “separate and distinct” from their homicide investigation and that they’re looking at a range of individuals.
Kayleah’s mother, April Wilson, told the girl and Montoya in January to end their relationship, according to Montoya’s arrest affidavit on the sexual assault charges.
On Feb. 19, police contacted Montoya after he allegedly looked into windows at Brentwood Middle School, where Kayleah was a sixth-grade student, the documents say.
Kayleah was last seen March 28, when she left her Greeley home to walk to a friend’s birthday party. Her body was found in a ditch in Greeley May 19.
According to the affidavit, April Wilson learned in January that Kayleah and Montoya were in a sexual relationship and ordered the two to stop seeing each other. She saw them together again sometime in the middle of February.
The affidavit described April Wilson as angry about the relationship. She told investigators that Kayleah had stopped talking about Montoya and seemed to be moving past him.
While Kayleah was missing, Montoya told investigators that he hid in bushes outside her home and attempted to contact her despite the breakup. On one of those occasions, Montoya told police that Kayleah told him to leave her alone. He said their relationship ended in February.
Other court documents filed by prosecutors allege that the sexual relationship lasted until the day she went missing.
Names in the affidavit were blacked out, but family friend Michelle Thompson had previously released details on behalf of April Wilson about Wilson’s attempt to break up the relationship.
Greeley police spokesman Joe Tymkowych said he had not yet seen the arrest affidavit and declined to comment.
Montoya’s public defender, Kevin Strobel, said his client is “charged with sexual assault and nothing else.” He declined to comment further.
