New York Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Jersey City Preteen
Friday, December 6, 2024, 4:30 P.M. ET. 1 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
JERSEY CITY, NJ.- Following an investigation by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit into allegations of the sexual assault of a child, on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, an 18-year-old Brooklyn, New York man was taken into custody and charged.
According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, Sergio Lokhanova-Flores, 18, was formally charged with first-degree Aggravated Sexual Assault; and third-degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
Lokhanova-Flores was apprehended on Tuesday in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently being detained in New York pending extradition to New Jersey.
The charges are the result of an investigation that determined that the minor girl met Lokhanova-Flores online in February 2024. The crimes then occurred on multiple occasions between March and July 2024, when the girl was eleven and twelve years old.
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