Crime & Safety
Suspected Child Molester Matches as Victim in Attempted Robbery Case
Inside the Police Reports: The suspect in a July child molestation case matches the name, phone number and ethnicity of the victim in a May attempted robbery case.
A man suspected of child molestation and sexual battery to a 15-year-old in July appears to be the same man who reported an attempted robbery outside his apartment in May.
For the molestation case, police met with the 15-year-old girl and her mother earlier this month to discuss an incident that had occurred on Independence Day. The girl told Gwinnett police that a 37-year-old Hispanic male was helping her move heavy objects between her home and their church on Burns Road, just a quarter of a mile away. He doesn't work for the church, but he is a member, said the victim.
According to the girl, the man began telling her that he wanted her and he wanted to be with her. He also asked her if he could hold her, which prompted to victim to say no. The report states that the suspect then picked the victim up and started to grope her.
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The juvenile, who had been slapping him and struggling to get out of his grip, was eventually able to get away.
The victim told police that she hasn't had contact with him since. She was also able to supply police with his ethnicity, phone number and name.
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No arrests have been made by Gwinnett police, and police haven't released details on if they've contacted the suspect or not.
In the attempted robbery case, the man by the same name was apparently the victim of the story. As told in an story in May, the man had been coming out of a taxi late one night to go to his home on the 4800 block of Burns Road.
A male outside asked him for a cigarette, but he said he didn't have one and proceeded to his apartment.
After a moment, the second man said something hard to decipher and then pointed a "chrome or shiny metallic object" at the 37-year-old.
In an attempt to distract the man with the shiny object, the victim pulled his sweatshirt partially over his upper torso and ran away to call police. He told police that the man fell to the ground during the altercation and ran away without any of the victim's property.
Gwinnett police searched the area afterward but found nothing.