{"id":305281,"date":"2026-05-08T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305281\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:20:08","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-case-of-10-year-old-girl-attacked-near-shopping-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305281\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in case of 10-year-old girl attacked near shopping center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/central-jail-2.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/central-jail-2.jpg\" alt=\"Central jail in downtown San Diego\" class=\"wp-image-63672\" style=\"width:640px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>Central jail on Front Street in downtown San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone)<\/p>\n<p>A 36-year-old man suspected of molesting a 10-year-old girl in Poway was behind bars Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Poway suspect was arrested Wednesday in connection with the alleged sexual battery of the child near the 13400 block of Midland Road, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>. Authorities released two photos of a <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/crime\/2026\/05\/06\/suspect-sexual-battery-girl-poway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">man riding a scooter<\/a> in the days after the Saturday attack.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect allegedly assaulted the girl shortly after 6 p.m., then fled on an electric scooter when a friend of hers screamed at him to stop, Lt. Aloha Peters said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies booked the man into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of performing a forcible lewd act on a person under age 14. He is being held without bail pending arraignment, scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central jail on Front Street in downtown San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone) A 36-year-old man suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6756,74,12027,76,75],"class_list":["post-305281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-poway","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-office","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}