The owner of an Elkton restaurant was sentenced to prison last month for a 2021 crime involving a minor.
Enrique Moreno, owner of El Torito Mexican Restaurant, was sentenced to five years in prison on January 31st in Todd County Circuit Court. He plead guilty to an amended charge of second-degree unlawful transaction with a minor.
The sentencing comes after a December 2021 investigation by the Elkton Police Department following a complaint of inappropriate sexual contact between Moreno and a minor employed at his restaurant.
Moreno was initially indicted in March 2022 on more serious charges, including first-degree sexual abuse, distribution of obscene materials to a minor, harassment (physical contact/no injury), attempted first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor (illegal sex act victim under 16), and criminal solicitation for use of a minor in a sexual performance.
