Man Raped Five-Year-Old Girls At His Wife’s Daycare Centre, Say Prosecutors

By Georgina JеdikovskaCrimeAug 30, 2023

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A man accused of raping girls aged five and six at his wife’s daycare centre is facing a string of child sex charges.

Roberto Medina, 57, from the town of Glen Burnie, Maryland State, USA, undated photo. He has been charged with a slew of sexual offenses after police accused him of assaulting two young girls his wife was babysitting in in the city of Annapolis, USA, between 2013 and 2015. (Annapolis Police Department/Newsflash)

Suspect Roberto Medina, 57, is said to have sexually abused the girls repeatedly at the nursery run in the family apartment in the city of Annapolis, Maryland State, USA.

Medina was charged on 25th August with first and second-degree rape plus third and fourth-degree sex offences.

In a separate case, he had been accused of second-degree assault, third and fourth-degree sex offences and second-degree rape.

Prosecutors say Medina carried out a catalogue of horrific abuse between 2013 and 2015.

Reports revealed his wife Betty had run an unlicensed daycare centre for children at the flat for 16 years, from 2003 to 2019.

Medina’s depraved antics were only revealed after one of his victims told police of three years of sexual abuse while she had been booked into the centre.

She told police he had taken her into his bedroom and raped her on three different occasions behind a locked door.

Image shows the 240B Hilltop Lane, in the city of Annapolis, Maryland State, USA, undated photo. Roberto Medina, 57, from the town of Glen Burnie has been charged with a slew of sexual offenses after police accused him of assaulting two young girls his wife was babysitting between 2013 and 2015. (Google Maps/Newsflash)

She revealed that sick Medina would show her pornographic recordings on his mobile phone with the sound turned down.

The second girl told police she was sexually assaulted for a whole year while she was cared for at the apartment.

She said Medina would strip her and touch her and threatened to beat her mercilessly with his belt if she resisted.

Police say he had abused her more than 20 times.

Police say they first discovered the abuse in March 2019 but have not revealed why it took four years to arrest Medina.

He was seized ed after police issued an official arrest warrant on 16th August and is being held without a bail bond.

Annapolis Police Department spokesperson Bernie Bennett said in a statement obtained by Newsflash: “The defendant, Roberto Medina, was charged with multiple sex offenses, including First Degree Rape, Second Degree Rape, Third Degree Sex Offense, Fourth Degree Sex Offense and Second Degree Assault.”

Medina is scheduled for a preliminary hearing for both cases at the Annapolis District Court on Wednesday, 20th September.