59-year-old Miami Beach resident Juan Carlos Gonzalez touched a 7-year-old girl’s genitals and buttocks at a Miami Sedano’s supermarket.
He is charged with lewd and lascivious child molestation by an adult.
The incident occurred around 7 p.m. Friday at the Sedano’s at West 38th Street and Flagler Street.
As the 7-year-old girl left Sedano’s with her father, she told him Gonzalez touched her “front and back private parts” over her dress. The father swung back into the store and asked the manager if he could see surveillance video. He said it showed Gonzalez repeatedly touching his daughter’s behind and genital area.
When the girl’s father tried to keep Gonzalez at the store, Gonzalez whipped out a pocket knife and said in Spanish, “If you hit me, I’ll stab you.”
As for what police say they saw on video,
“Video surveillance at the incident location clearly showed Gonzalez intentionally touching and grabbing the victim’s buttocks and genital area several times.”
The suspect was eventually arrested.
Gonzalez’s rap sheet includes convictions for loitering, prowling and trespassing; resisting an officer with violence and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer; petit larceny; and loitering and resisting arrest without violence.
