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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Madera antheral is successful jailhouse aft a young girl’s horrifying wakeup telephone Saturday.
“A small miss woke up to an older antheral big successful her bedroom,” Madera Police Sgt. Blake Short said.
Madera constabulary arrested 43-year-old Hilario Morales-Santiago on Saturday.
Madera Police DepartmentThey accidental helium broke into a family’s location astatine 3 a.m. that greeting and tried to sexually battle the 13-year-old miss who lives there.
“She showed tremendous courageousness and bravery by instantly screaming retired to him to leave,” Short said. “And due to the fact that of her actions, I deliberation that that evidently startled this male, astir apt not feeling similar that would beryllium a earthy effect of idiosyncratic of that age.”
Short says the miss instantly called 911, and the fishy ran away. He says officers arrived successful clip to spot Morales-Santiago walking retired the backmost door.
“Because of her telephone and the mode the officers responded, we were capable to apprehend him a abbreviated region distant from this residence,” Short said.
He says her courageousness protected herself and imaginable aboriginal victims.
“It's important that we're talking to our kids and instilling successful them the tools and the courageousness and the bravery to bash things similar this 13-year-old young girl,” Short said.
Morales-Santiago is charged with a felony number of entering a location with the intent of committing a intersexual act. However, Short says this was not the suspect’s archetypal brushwood with police.
“He is not needfully caller to us,” Short said. “We person records stemming backmost from 2008 involving him.”
He says that agelong past has made the section adjacent much vigilant, and helium suspects determination whitethorn beryllium much victims who person yet to travel forward.
He encourages anyone with accusation connected this oregon akin cases to telephone the section astatine 559-675-4220.
