FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A 37-year-old Haitian migrant — who stands accused of sexually abusing a girl and having pictures of it in his cell phone — appeared in court on Saturday in Broward County.
After the 10-year-old girl was in the hospital on Wednesday, police officers told Nivenson Sarazin that they had video evidence of the abuse, and he confessed that he had “lost control” around her, records show.
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“I should have just asked for a lawyer,” Sarazin said during the police interrogation, according to the Pembroke Park Police arrest report.
Sarazin, who has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold, appeared in bond court before Broward County Circuit Judge Elijah Williams in Fort Lauderdale.
Pembroke Park police had arrested him on Friday. Sarazin was facing five counts of sexual assault of a victim under 12 years old, five counts of battery contact with bodily fluids, five counts of using or allowing a child to engage in sex, five counts of directly promoting sexual performance by a child, and two counts of promoting sexual conduct by a child.
The girl was allegedly a relative of Sarazin’s girlfriend. Williams ordered him not to have any “contact whatsoever” with her. Williams first set Sarazin’s bond at $540,000 and later denied him bond.
Records Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were holding Sarazin at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale. A Facebook page with Sarazin’s identity reported he had lived in the Dominican Republic and attended the Lycee National De Petion Ville in Port-au-Prince.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.