DALTON, Ga. — A 20-year-old Dalton man was charged with child molestation and other charges after meeting a Catoosa County girl who said she was 15 on Facebook and bringing her to an apartment in Dalton on Sunday, according to a Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

Juan C. Gonzalez-Bail, of 105 Cambron Drive, was charged with child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes and sexual battery.

The sheriff’s office was contacted early Sunday afternoon and a deputy was sent to the apartment to assist the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office in trying to make contact with the girl who had left her residence with an adult male without her mother’s permission. The daughter had told her mother where she was after she said Gonzalez-Bail began kissing her “in the lips and neck area,” even though she had told him no when he asked if they could kiss, and tried to touch her inappropriately, according to the report.

Gonzalez-Bail told a deputy no one else was in the apartment, but when the deputy asked about the girl, Gonzalez-Bail said she was there. While waiting on a Catoosa County deputy and the girl’s mother to arrive, the girl asked the Whitfield deputy if they could talk in private.

After Gonzalez-Bail was placed in the back of the deputy’s patrol car, the girl said she and Gonzalez-Bail had met on Facebook earlier in the day and were chatting on Facebook Messenger. She told the deputy she wanted to leave her house “for a few hours” and Gonzalez-Bail, who had told the girl he was 17, picked her up. She said she told him she was 15. She texted her mother “that she was leaving with someone but did not get a response until they had already left the house.”

She said she and Gonzalez-Bail stopped at a store on the way to the apartment and Gonzalez-Bail asked “an unknown individual” to buy beer for him. He started drinking while they were in the bedroom, she said.

Gonzalez-Bail is being held without bond at the Whitfield County jail awaiting a bond hearing today in Superior Court. According to the incident report, he will also face charges in Catoosa County