MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 71-year-old man was arrested Friday, a day after he molested a 12-year-old boy while the child was walking to school in northeast Miami-Dade, authorities said.
Police said the incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the 1400 block of Northeast 163rd Street.
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According to the suspect’s arrest report, the victim was walking to school when Pablo Romero, who is homeless, approached him and grabbed the boy’s penis over his clothing “in a lewd and lascivious manner.”
Police said Romero was located the next day and was taken into custody.
Romero provided detectives with a statement, but it was redacted from the publicly released arrest report.
He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation on a child.