Porn-browsing dad charged with abuse after leaving daughter in car

Posted: 10:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, 2010

POLICE BLOTTER

While a West Palm Beach man browsed adult videos and toys Friday morning, his 9-month-old daughter was left in an unlocked vehicle, authorities said. Rafael J. Garcia, 28, was charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. The girl had a temperature of 104 degrees and was transported to Palms West Hospital in serious, though not believed to be life-threatening, condition, the sheriff's office said. Garcia left the girl in a blue Ford Escort for 36 minutes while inside Guys and Dolls Adult Book Store at 464 S. Military Trail in suburban West Palm Beach.

WEST PALM BEACH — A couple beat their three young children with a television cable, belt and stick, striking them one time for each of their years of age, police said. A girl, 10, a boy, 9, and a girl, 5, told police that they were beaten repeatedly by their mother, Jerita Aaron, 31, and Christopher Aaron, 41, stepfather of the older two and father of the youngest. The couple were charged with multiple counts of child torture and cruelty, caging of a child and neglect. On Friday, they were ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

COURTS

A 14-year-old raped a 10-year-old girl walking to school in Belle Glade, and tried to sexually assault an adult female, authorities said Friday. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Bobby Martinez, of Belle Glade, on Feb. 24 at Crossroads Academy. He is charged as an adult with felony sexual assault and kidnapping, and as a juvenile on one misdemeanor count of simple battery in the second attack, the sheriff's office said. The 10-year-old told deputies she was assaulted on Feb. 22 after Martinez grabbed her neck and forced her into an abandoned home. A 26-year-old woman told deputies someone tried to sexually assault her on Feb. 9.

Federal authorities on Friday indicted George Joseph England, who is accused of keeping a girl as a sex slave for more than a decade, much of that time in Palm Beach County. Moved recently from a California prison to federal custody, England will be transferred to Florida. Prosecutors allege England bought Jackie Zudis from her mother in Vietnam in the early 1970s when Jackie was 5. Living under an assumed name for years in South Florida, England continued to sexually assault Zudis until she was an adult, they said.

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