MIAMI – Hillsborough County authorities, on the Gulf of Mexico coast in Florida (USA), arrested a man from 50 years for multiple cases of sexual harassment of minors registered for almost 50 years.
A total of nine alleged victims were have filed with the authorities to report inappropriate sexual attitudes by Thomas David Lair from 1972 to 1998.
Most of the victims were between 6 and 9 years old at the time of the incidents, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Friday.
Lair faces a total of 15 charges, including 13 charges of lewd sexual abuse, one charge of sexual assault when the victim was a minor 12 years and he is older than 18 and another identical but in this case supposedly produced when L air was also a minor.
Initially, detectives learned that Lair allegedly sexually abused several young women, many under 11 years, after befriending them and their families from 1998 to 2020.
But they discovered that the cases involving the suspect, arrested last day 13 of April, allegedly date back to 1972, when Lair was a preteen.
The Police of Hillsborough has asked any other potential victims of the defendant to come forward and testify against the defendant.
“Our detectives are concerned that other children may be affected, and we ask anyone else who can be a victim who isn’t afraid to come forward and speak up,” said Sheriff Chad Chronister. “It is important for parents to be cautious with any adult they entrust with the care of their children and also to listen to their children if they say they are uncomfortable with a person.”
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