Note: We should watch this case closely. It sounds like another rape and pillage marauder from South of the Border. No boundaries, no fear, no guilt, and going for the children. This story has illegal alien or gang banger written all over it.



Mother Walking Streets To Find Man Who Molested Her Daughter

OSTED: 4:12 pm EDT August 6, 2008
UPDATED: 5:39 pm EDT August 6, 2008
WFTV News

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A mother is walking the streets hunting for the man who molested her daughter. The 8-year-old girl was groped inside a laundromat on Hiawassee Road in Orange County (see map) on Monday and the crime was caught on videotape.

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Every corner of the laundromat was surveillance and the victim's mom told Eyewitness News there is crystal clear video of the suspect that the public needs to see, but Orange County Sheriff's Office investigators won't release the video yet.

The victim's mother melts with emotion when she describes what happened to her 8-year-old daughter inside the laundromat. The girl was there with a relative when the attacked happened, but Kelly Martin watched surveillance video of the incident with detectives.

"'Get your hands off her, just get your hands off her! Just stop!' He wouldn't stop. He just kept his hands on her," Martin said.

She wants the world to see the tape. She wants the suspect found before he does it again. Martin has walked the streets looking for the man she believes lives in the area.

"I've looked for him for three days and I've walked and I've looked," she said.

[Kelly Martin wants the suspect found before he does it again.]
Kelly Martin wants the suspect found before he does it again.
The laundromat has nine surveillance cameras. The whole incident was caught on tape by the bathroom, but the sheriff's office said they won't release it because investigators have not looked at it yet.

Channel 9 tried repeatedly to get the video and also talked to people who work in the area and saw the suspect Monday afternoon right after the attack happened.

"175, 180 pounds, medium build, 5-foot-10, 5-foot-11, Hispanic, brown hair," said Sandra Vicena, who works nearby. "He's got a tattoo of writing right here [on his neck], left hand scratch marks."

Martin knows someone off North Hiawassee knows the man. The only apology she makes on her mission to find him is to her daughter.

"I'm so sorry, I'm sorry he did this to you. I'm so sorry," she said.

Martin said members of the community told her he fits the description of someone accused of groping other kids in the neighborhood, but it has not been reported. Orange County Sheriff's Office said, if that's true, people need to report it.

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