The suspect accused of a heinous and violent rape of a 12-year-old girl in Brooklyn was apprehended on Friday. Detectives from the Brooklyn North Special Victims Unit (SVU) booked Eric McMichael, 27, of Clay Street in Greenpoint on two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, burglary and endangering the welfare of a child. McMichael kept his head down in front of reporters and photographers asking him about the crime as detectives walked him out of the SVU headquarters on Nevins Street
A stranger told a 12-year-old girl "I'm going to violate you," and raped her in a heinous attack in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing building Thursday, cops and sources said. The predator approached the preteen around 5:45 p.m. in the stairwell of the Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street in Williamsburg, according to authorities and sources.
MARTINEZ - A Concord man in his late 30s has been sentenced to 13 years in state prison for raping a 13-year-old girl, a crime he allegedly tried to cover up by threatening to kill the victim or have her deported. Macario Cucul-Maaz, 39, pleaded no contest to a child rape charge and was sentenced in late June, court records show. He is currently housed at North Kern State Prison.
WARNING: This story references child sexual assault. Ontario corrections officials have denied a request to transfer registered child sex offender Daniel Senecal to a women's jail as the 25-year-old awaits a bail hearing in another case, this one involving an attack on a girl in Welland. Senecal was released earlier this year after serving time for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old in the Niagara Region city. The latest charges involve a three-year-old over the Labour Day weekend.