A 15-year-old girl from New Jersey was sexually assaulted and kidnapped after she took a car service to New York City to meet a man who is a convicted sex offender, authorities said.
The NYPD charged William Credle, 24, of the Bronx with rape, unlawful imprisonment, assault, sexual abuse and harassment, according to an email to NJ Advance Media.
The NYPD declined to say where in New Jersey the girl lives or from where she traveled.
After chatting online, man paid for the teen to take a car service to his Bronx apartment around 11:30 p.m. Monday, the New York Daily News reported.
Credle then allegedly sexually assaulted the girl despite her pleas for him to stop. He refused to let her leave the apartment and later he sexually assaulted her again and punched her in the head, the report said.
When the girl’s parents realized she had left home, they tracked the location of her tablet to the Bronx and notified the police in New Jersey.
Cops in New Jersey notified the NYPD, which sent officers to the apartment on Hughes Avenue near East 187th Street and arrested Credle, the Daily News said.
Credle was taken into custody at 11:37 p.m. Tuesday, the NYPD said.
He is scheduled for a court appearance on Monday morning, according to online court records.
The NYPD is asking any other victims to call the NYPD’s Sex Crimes Hotline at 1-212-267-7273, NYPD’s Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-646-610-7272, Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-8477 or for Spanish, 1-888-577-4782.
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crimestoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on X (formerly Twitter) @NYPDTips.
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