Sick little punk

09/13/2006
Young girl describes ordeal after her attempted rape

DAVIE, Fla. (WSVN) -- An 11-year-old girl relived a terrifying ordeal when she says she was cornered by an 18-year-old who, she says, wanted to rape her.
Rocael Espinoza Andres, the young man accused of the attempted rape, now sits at the Broward county jail.
It was Sunday when the 11-year-old girl was walking home from a Davie McDonald's with a friend, but then she separated from her friends. She slipped through a gap in a fence near 131st Avenue and State Road 84 to head home. That's when she said three men confronted her. She said one of those men grabbed her and pulled her into the bushes, pulling down his pants and offering her money to have sex.
"He pulled me in and pulled his pants down, and then I was like, 'No, no,'" said the victim. "He offered me $100 and I was like, 'No, I don't want money, I don't want that. I don't want you, I don't want anything to do with you, get away from me.'"
The girl was able to slap him and get away but not before the man fondled her under her shorts. "He kept on touching, feeling my pants, and I was like, 'Stop,'" she said. "Then I pulled his hand out, and he tried to lick my chest, and I was like, 'No!' and I slapped his face. Then, like five minutes later, my pants finally got uncaught, and I ran."
The girl told a group of her friends what had happened. The friends -- among them Jesus -- took off after the men.
"I had a gulf club stick without the top part of it," Jesus said, "and I put it in their face, and I told them, 'Don't move. Stop right now,' so she could come and tell us who did it."
Justin Jesus, the victim's friend, said he did not mind risking his own safety to make sure his friend's attacker would be off the street. "I know her, she's my friend," he said. "We're not just people who say, 'Hi.' I'm her friend, and I care about her, and I'm not going to let her get raped and not go after the people who did it."
Jesus recalled that his friend was "hysterical" after the attack. "Her eyes were red and swollen," he said. "She just couldn't stop crying. She couldn't even talk."
While Jesus and the other friends kept Andres from fleeing, police arrived and arrested him. Andres later admitted to police that he grabbed the girl's breasts and touched her under her shorts, as well as admitting his plans to rape her.
Officers arrested Andres after he admitted his sinister intentions with the girl. Police have charged Andres with one count of sexual battery on a victim under 12 and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation. He's also being held on an immigration violation.
Meanwhile, Andres' father, Feliciano Andres, said he does not believe his son could do such an act. Through a translator, he said, "I don't think he did it because he was drunk. I don't think he did it."
Friends of the 11-year-old victim say they are going to be more cautious and stick together when walking home from school. "Probably walk with more people than I usually do. And I'm going to walk with her all the time now to make sure nothing else happens," said one young girl.