A Hammond man is being held on a $100,000 cash bond after he was newly implicated in connection with a home invasion where his relative and her 12-year-old daughter were sexually assaulted, according to court documents.

Valentine L. Torrez, 47, originally told police he was at the relative’s house Nov. 13 when his longtime friend Garrett Whittenburg, 39, of Chicago, broke into the home with another man, who was not identified in Whittenburg’s charges. The woman and child told police they heard two men in the house.

However, a DNA hit from a sexual assault kit matched Torrez from an offender database, according to a new charges filed on April 14. Whittenburg was excluded from both rape kits, according to court documents.

Senior Judge Michael Bergerson ordered Torrez’s bond set Tuesday, granting the state’s motion to use “reasonable force” to collect a new DNA swab, implying he was not cooperative with police. He granted defense lawyer Kerry Connor’s request for a bail review hearing, set for April 26.

Prosecutors indicated they plan to file a habitual offender enhancement against Torrez, which could add more time if convicted.

The woman told police Torrez showed up Nov. 13 looking for “something to drink,” charges state. Five minutes later, two men walked into her house. One had a gun and was wearing a white sweatshirt, mask and gloves, according to court documents.

“You don’t have to do this,” Torrez said. “Take whatever you want.”

Torrez later identified the man as Whittenburg, a friend of two decades, court documents said. He told police he was ordered to tie up the 12-year-old girl, who had been asleep on a sofa. When he refused, the second man covered the girl’s head and took her to her bedroom, then tied up the relative’s hands behind his back in the kitchen, according to charges.

The woman told police her face was covered with a ski mask and head in a towel before she was sexually assaulted “repeatedly.” She felt two sets of hands while being assaulted, she said. One of the men patted the woman on her shoulder, saying she wouldn’t get hurt, according to the affidavit.

A second man molested the girl in her bedroom while she was blindfolded, the child told police, court documents said.

The woman said Whittenburg and the other man took her iPhone and debit card before leaving, charges state. The woman and child were later examined at a hospital.

Torrez said he managed to escape out a back door and drove to another house to call 911. He later told police he went inside the house that day, but had left the door unlocked before Whittenburg and the other man went inside, according to documents.

The DNA hit matched “Valentino Torres,” which investigators said matched Valentine Torrez in police databases, according to charges.