SAN DIEGO (WSVN) — A distraught father attacked his neighbor after he said the man broke into his home in broad daylight to kidnap and rape his 3-year-old daughter.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, 46-year-old Francisco Diaz is facing life in prison after prosecutors said he went to the home next door, removed the window screen of the bedroom where the 3-year-old child was sleeping, and sexually assaulted the girl.
When the girl woke up and started crying, prosecutors said Diaz climbed out of the window while carrying the child.
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Investigators said as Diaz returned home with the girl, his mother saw them and noticed the girl was naked from the waist down. She then wrapped a blanket around the child and returned her to her family.
According to Fox 5 San Diego, the girl told her father what happened, and the father went and got into a fight with Diaz before they were separated by police and Diaz was arrested.
Police later learned that a male relative of the young girl claimed to have seen Diaz looking into his bedroom sliding glass door some time before the incident.
According to state records, Diaz is a registered sex offender who was convicted in 2007 of molesting a child under the age of 18. He now faces four felony charges: kidnapping, threat to cause death, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sodomy with a minor. He is being held without bail.
Diaz has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty.
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