NEWCASTLE, In: Police have arrested 19-year-old Caleb Cooper, accusing him taking a 6-year-old girl from an apartment playground and molesting her inside his apartment.
According to reports, Cooper approached four children at his apartment complex’s playground and started pushing them on the swings while telling them about a kitten in his apartment. At some point he took a 6-year-old girl by the wrist and took her inside his apartment.
The older brother of the girl knocked on Cooper’s apartment door but Cooper would not answer. Fearing for his sister’s safety, he and the other two children began knocking on other resident’s doors asking for help until one neighbor called police.
When police arrived at Cooper’s apartment, the teen let them in only after they threatened to kick in his door. Inside, Cooper looked as if he had just gotten dressed and directed the officers to a bedroom when they asked about the girl.
In the bedroom, the officer found the girl, “totally nude, trying to put her panties on.” The girl told police Cooper kissed her and tried to have sex with her. She said, “Mr. Cooper tried to put his ‘bad stuff’ in her ‘bad stuff.’”
Cooper allegedly told police, “I’m so stupid, I can’t believe I got caught doing this again.” He added,
“Am I going to get into a lot of trouble for this?” He also informed officers he had recently been on parole from an incident when he was 14 after having sex with another kid. As he was being transported to jail, Cooper told the officers that the 6-year-old girl was one who wanted to have sex, and that it was all her idea.
Caleb Cooper has been charged with child molesting, which carries a standard 30-year prison term, and criminal confinement.
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