Miami man gave ‘I am Cuban’ as reason for molesting boy, cops say: ‘That is just something men do’

MIAMI – A Miami antheral is accused of molesting a 9-year-old lad and past brushing disconnected the incidental erstwhile confronted by the child’s parent arsenic “just thing men do.”

Police arrested Reinaldo Reyes Llanes, 67, of Allapattah, connected Saturday.

According to an apprehension report, the victim’s parent had taken him to a gathering wherever her leader had been hosting a get-together astatine his flat astatine 3701 NW 22nd Ave.

Reyes Llanes, her employer’s neighbor, was besides invited, constabulary said.

Police said that arsenic the gathering coiled down and radical began to leave, Reyes Llanes suggested that the pistillate and her lad enactment the nighttime astatine his apartment, offering his furniture portion helium would slumber connected the floor.

“While lying connected the bed, (Reyes Llanes) entered the bedroom, smacked the unfortunate connected his buttock implicit the covering and past grabbed his beforehand genital country implicit the clothing,“ the study states. ”(The woman) stated (her son) instantly turned to look her, astatine which constituent she intervened.”

Police said erstwhile the pistillate asked Reyes Llanes wherefore helium touched the boy’s privates, helium said, portion laughing, “I americium Cuban. That is conscionable thing men do.”

The study states that Reyes Llanes, portion speaking with police, denied molesting the boy.

As of Monday, Reyes Llanes was being held without enslaved successful the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center connected a complaint of lewd and lasicivious molestation of a kid nether 12.

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