Man Held Without Bail in Assault on 10-Year-Old Girl
A Los Angeles man accused of snatching a 10-year-old girl on her way home last weekend and then sexually assaulting her in an apartment was ordered held without bail Friday by a Superior Court judge.
Judge Elizabeth White also postponed Timothy Andrew Pearson’s arraignment until next Thursday at the request of his attorney, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Pearson, 29, is charged with one count each of aggravated assault of a child, sodomy by use of force, a lewd act upon a child and possession of child pornography.
The victim had been walking home with several family members Sunday when she and her older sister decided to race each other home, Los Angeles police said. They ran to an alley in the 200 block of West 16th Street. A man grabbed the 10-year-old and forced her into a red 1992 Honda, police said.
The man drove her to an apartment and sexually assaulted her, police said. Afterward, her attacker dropped her off in Rancho Palos Verdes, near a junior high school.
A tip led detectives to Pearson, whom they arrested just before midnight Wednesday. Officers found a car in Pearson’s garage matching the description of the one used in the attack, police said.
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