Police officials said the 18-year-old suspect, Catrel, was arrested and taken into custody after he reportedly ‘indecently assaulted’ a 7-year-old girl. He\u00a0was arrested on a felony charge of predatory criminal se-ual assault of a victim under age thirteen. The girl\u2019s father, school principal, and the school\u2019s chief executive officer traveled to the girl\u2019s home to check on her. When she saw adults she could trust, she told them everything that Catrel allegedly did to her. And then she told police that this was not the first time the 18-year-old man had se-ually assaulted her. However, it was the first time he had done it while she was on a live camera feed during her distance learning classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the police officials, the 7-year-old victim, who was not identified due to her age, was actually his seven-year-old relative. He committed the criminal act on video in an online forum that is often used for distance learning during the pandemic, and now he has been arrested and held without bail until his court date. Police said Catrel\u00a0se-ually assaulted the child while she was in school via a distance learning application. Although the girl muted her microphone, the camera was left on, which allowed her teacher to see all the gruesome details of the assault.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students in the class kept speaking up in defense of the girl. Some said, \u201cWhat is going on?\u201d and \u201cWhat is happening?\u201d The abuse was gra-hic and caught on camera during a pause in the class. That\u2019s when the teacher saw Catrel se-ually assaulting the 7-year-old victim on camera.\u00a0The teacher ordered the other students to log off the online classroom. She then called the victim\u2019s name and told her to turn off the camera. That\u2019s when the teacher saw the defendant close the computer.\u00a0Immediately, the teacher reported the se-xual assault to the school\u2019s principal. The principal called the girl\u2019s family and involved the police and other authorities from the Department of Children and Family Services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The child was rushed to the Children\u2019s Hospital and is reported to be in stable condition.\u00a0Meanwhile, police hunted down Catrel after they became aware of his attack. He was swiftly arrested. He\u00a0confessed to se-ually assaulting his 7-year-old relative but were unable to provide a motive for the attack, \u201cI don\u2019t know why I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sorry.” Police officials also said that Catrel\u00a0struggles with a learning disability called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. His defense attorney reported that this disability impairs the young man\u2019s ability to control his se-ual urges and impulses.\u00a0Judge Beach said: \u201cThis ongoing history of assault, for approximately a year, according to the victim, leads me to believe this is not something that will just stop because I have ordered it to. This history and his actions from this case lead me to believe that he is a threat to an individual and the community as a whole.\u201d Ladies and gentlemen, we are republishing this story<\/a><\/strong> amid recent reports that child se-ual abuse has surged in America during the pandemic. Statistics indicate 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys under the age of 18 experience se-ual abuse or assault from an adult.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officials said the 18-year-old suspect, Catrel, was arrested and taken into custody after he reportedly ‘indecently assaulted’…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trending","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"yoast_head":"\n