A grand jury indicted 42-year-old Ray Terry Perez-Rojas of Silver Spring on charges related to his alleged actions with a child under his temporary custodial care. The child, unnamed in court documents, was 10 years old when the alleged offenses began.
Perez-Rojas now faces 21 felony charges related to child sex abuse spanning 2018 through 2022. Of the 21, he faces six counts of rape in the second degree – which carries a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison, with a maximum of life, if the victim is under 13 – and four counts of child pornography.
Perez-Rojas has been in and out of rescheduled, postponed or entirely canceled hearings and trials, since a different case covering many of the same charges opened back in 2022. The chief difference between that case and this one? Allegations of recently-discovered pornographic material involving children on his personal cellphone.
Legal limbo
His initial trial date in that first date was in May 2023. That got canceled due to scheduling conflicts. Perez-Rojas, who had been held without bond up until that point, was released on recognizance two months later.
The next scheduled jury trial was set to take place the following March. That got canceled, too, and rescheduled to January 2025.
Canceled again.
Fast forward to last week’s postponement hearing, where Judge Carlos Acosta approved the upcoming trial schedule and prosecutorial changes.
Now, the current case has 21 counts and replaces the original case, which was dismissed.
On Feb 2, 2026, Perez-Rojas is set to go to trial for the 21 counts, spanning sexual abuse of a minor, rape in the second degree, sexual offense in the third degree, sexual solicitation of a minor and child pornography.
