8 Year Old Florida Girl Raped in Broad Daylight (UPDATE: Suspect in Custody)
How brazen and sick can some people truly be? The facts that sex crimes occur is bad enough. That fact that they are prepared on children is even worse. But for a rape to occur to an eight year old in broad day light is truly repulsive and heinous. How sick and dangerous an individual is on the loose that would do such a thing.
Have you seen this man in the St. Petersburg, FL area?
Police say the suspect is described:
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an Asian male between 17 and 21-years-old
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He’s 5’6″ and 125-pounds.
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Officers say the suspect may be a transient
An 8-year-old girl was raped on the side of a residential street in full daylight less than half a block from her apartment, police said.
The girl was leaving a park at about 12:55 p.m. with her 7-year-old brother when a man grabbed her from behind, pulled her to the ground and raped her, police said. Their mother had left them alone for a few minutes to return home and turn off the kitchen stove.
Luckily people near by who witnessed and heard the attack and called 911 and ran to the scene causing this rapists to run off. Neighbor Aaron Chambiss was playing basketball and ran to the scene and chased the attacker down the street. The incomprehensible actions of the sick individual are beyond belief in that he committed this crime in broad daylight, out in the open and with people running toward him.
When he ran to the park. he couldn’t believe what he saw.
Aaron chased the suspect down the block but he got away, “He seemed to be high on something because he saw me and attempted to run the first time but then he jumped back on the little girl.”
Parents like Aaron are worried, “It’s a sick individual, broad daylight in front of a park. Residential neighborhood, lots of kids around here, we don’t need any sexual predators in our neighborhood.”
Aaron says it made him sick to see what happened, “She was begging and pleading for him to stop and it touched my heart. I got kids of my own.”
Police were able to recover the man’s shirt; however, he got away. Hopefully there may be DNA on the shirt that they may be able to match to a sex offender database.
Neighbors had never seen him in the area before. Call the St. Petersburg Police Department if you have any information.
UPDATE: According to Tampa Bays 10 a suspect has been arrested in the 
daylight rape of 10 8 year old St Petersburg girl.
UPDATE: Henry Sengaroun, 18, arrested in case of raped 8 year old Henry Sengaroun, 18, who suffers from mental health issues was arrested in a rape in broad day light of an 8 year old girl.
Henry Sengaroun, 18, was arrested Thursday, Detective Joe Bross said. A shirt Sengaroun left at the crime scene, and descriptions from witnesses led to his arrest. He faces a charge of capital sexual battery. Sengaroun recently lived in the area, but was described as a transient. (First Coast News)