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A man was arrested on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, after being accused of molesting a girl in a portable bathroom nearly 11 years ago in Miami Beach, police said. <\/p>\n
Miami Herald File<\/p>\n
A man was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of molesting a girl in a portable bathroom nearly 11 years ago, marking his fourth arrest this year for alleged sexual abuse against children in Miami Beach from 2010-2017, police said.<\/p>\n
The accusations against Freddy Zelaya, 46, began after a man came forward to report he had been abused by Zelaya as a child, according to a series of arrest affidavits by the Miami Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Zelaya started to abuse him when he was around 10 years old, lasting from 2010-2017, the affidavit said. He is accused of raping the boy and frequently forcing him to watch child pornography.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 15, Miami Beach police arrested Zelaya. He denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
Then, a woman and a girl went to police about two weeks later, the affidavits said. Both had been aware their attacker was arrested and wanted to report their abuse, too.<\/p>\n
The woman told investigators he was an \u201copportunistic attacker\u201d who started regularly molesting her starting when she was 7 years old in 2014, the affidavit said. She hadn\u2019t previously reported these encounters to her parents \u201cout of shame and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
When police interviewed the girl, she described being molested in 2014 during a Christmastime visit to his home, the affidavit said. She was \u201cmerely five years old.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the course of the investigation, the male victim told police that Zelaya had confided in him that he had once taken a girl to a portable restroom in 2015 to sexually abuse her, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n
There was an attack during which a father was walking with his four children near North Shore Open Space Park when he noticed one of them was missing, the Miami Herald reported on Oct. 13, 2015.<\/p>\n
He went looking for his daughter and saw a man walking out of the bushes holding her hand, according to the Herald archives. The girl told police at the time the man held a knife to her and led her to a portable toilet at a construction site between the park and Altos Del Mar, a gated community.<\/p>\n