Police officials said the 18-year-old suspect, Catrel, was arrested and taken into custody after he reportedly moIested a 7-year-old girl.
He was arrested on a felony charge of predatory criminal se-ual assault of a victim under age thirteen. The girl’s father, school principal, and the school’s chief executive officer traveled to the girl’s 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.
Police said Catrel se-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. Read the fuII story▶