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A Miami Gardens man was arrested after police say he drugged and raped a teenage girl he met when she was 13; charges include lewd and lascivious battery.<\/p>\n
Miami Herald File<\/p>\n
Aiding a teenager slumped on the ground having a medical episode this month led to North Miami Beach officers learning that a Miami Gardens man had been raping her for at least the last two years \u2014 a discovery that her mother had long since made, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Junior Pericles Cher-Frere, 23, is facing charges of lewd or lascivious battery on a minor and delivery of a controlled substance to a minor, his arrest report read. As of Thursday afternoon, he remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n
On March 4, North Miami Beach police officers rushed to a 911 call of a teen lying on the ground at a home. Paramedics treated her there, after which she and her mother went to the North Miami Beach Police Department for an interview, the report read.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, the young girl, whose age was not released, met with Cher-Frere. He gave her marijuana, which she used, and then \u201cengaged in sexual intercourse\u201d in his car, police said. The girl remembered feeling \u201chazy\u201d and unable to think clearly after.<\/p>\n
Police said she told them she and Cher-Frere met at least three years prior when she was 13 and he was 20, authorities said. She described their connection as a \u201cdating relationship\u201d in which they later had sex.<\/p>\n
Her mother revealed that she knew of the illegal relationship two years prior. When she discovered it, she texted Cher-Frere informing him that her daughter was underage and ordered him to end all contact with her \u2014 he said he knew and would stop, which was a lie, police said.<\/p>\n
Cher-Frere was arrested by North Miami Beach police\u2019s tactical investigations unit on Wednesday at a Miami Gardens home. In a police interview, authorities said he confessed to meeting the girl when she was 13 years old at a party and some months later \u201cbegan to have sex\u201d with her.<\/p>\n
He continued to allege that the only reason he continued the illegal act was \u201cdue to threats [the girl] was making to expose their sexual activity,\u201d police wrote in his report.<\/p>\n
Officers informed him that regardless, \u201clegally he should not have been having sex with the underage [girl].\u201d<\/p>\n