text:  He threatened the 15-year-old girl with a metal pole to get into his car and then, quote, the defendant took off the victim's clothes as well as forced the victim's legs open, leaving scratch marks on her inner thighs. Border Patrol agents arrested Akan, a Turkish citizen, in November 2023 at the U.S.-Mexico border in California. I'm an attorney for Akan telling Fox News that his client denies the allegation and that he's in the U.S. to seek asylum.