MOULTRIE —
A 17-year-old faces child molestation charges in a reported sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl.
Ja-Marcus Durham, 723 Joe Louis Ave., was charged Friday with child molestation and aggravated child molestation in the assault at a residence on Fourth Avenue Southeast.
“He was spending the night at the residence where she was staying,” Moultrie Police Department Inv. Dave Underwood said. “During some time in the night he tried to take advantage of her.”
Underwood said that the girl was sleeping at the time of the assault.
The aggravated sexual assault charge typically involves an act of sodomy, he said.
Police were dispatched on Thursday to the emergency room of Colquitt Regional Medical Center on a report of a rape.
The alleged assault occurred the previous night, Underwood said. He said the child molestation charges fit the nature of the attack, which he did not wish to detail.
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