Wichita Falls man accused of sexually assaulting girl suffering fentanyl overdose

A Wichita Falls man is charged with sexual assault of a child after a 15-year-old girl told police he gave her fentanyl and raped her while she was unconscious, court records show.

Jayson Noel Giner, 34, was behind held Wednesday the Wichita County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail, according to online jail records.

Anyone charged with a crime is considered innocent unless convicted beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

According to court affidavits filed in the case, police officers were sent to the area around Jacksboro Highway and Christine Street on May 14 to check on a person overdosing.

The girl’s mother told officers she arrived home to find a man hiding in her daughter’s closet, according to allegations in the affidavits. She provided police video of the suspect running from the house.

The affidavit alleges that when the mother was taking her daughter to a rehab facility, the girl revealed Giner forced himself on her after giving her two Percocet pills containing fentanyl.

She also told a forensic interviewer at Patsy’s House Child Advocacy Center she met Giner at a gas station in October 2023 and had sex with him on multiple occasions in exchange for drugs, according to allegations.

The document said that in an interview with police, Giner admitted knowing the girl and taking her to his apartment, but he said he never saw her again after their first meeting.

Giner was arrested Tuesday. The charge against him is a second-degree felony, which carries a prison sentence up to 20 years if he’s convicted.

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that police say has resulted in more than 20 overdose deaths in Wichita Falls in recent years.

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This article originally appeared on Wichita Falls Times Record News: WFPD: Man sexually assaulted girl unconscious from fentanyl overdose