Video inside Chick-fil-A reveals intercourse offender touching teen
The Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace says a intercourse offender sexually attacked a teenage lady.
LAKELAND, Fla. – A convicted intercourse offender is beneath arrest, accused of touching the buttocks of a 16-year-old lady on the Chick-fil-A restaurant in Lakeland.
Awny Abdel Malek Basta, 57, of Lakeland, is charged with lewd and lascivious contact.
When deputies arrived on the restaurant at 4625 South Florida Avenue round 3 p.m. Thursday, the sufferer informed them she was seated at a desk doing schoolwork when Basta sat down behind her. She informed detectives she felt one thing contact the higher a part of her buttocks a number of instances. When she rotated to see what was touching her, she noticed that it was Basta’s hand.
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Surveillance video inside the shop confirmed the sufferer’s claims.
After Basta was confronted by the lady, he took off.
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Restaurant employees adopted Basta and gave updates on his location to PCSO dispatchers. Basta boarded a metropolis bus, and it drove north on S. Florida Avenue. Restaurant staff flagged down the bus at which period it stopped and Basta was requested to get off. Deputies discovered him in a close-by car parking zone and detained him.
Detectives say Basta refused to speak with them.
“Awny Basta is a pervert, and a intercourse offender with an intensive legal historical past. Due to his historical past, our detectives imagine it’s doable that there are further victims on the market. If anybody thinks they could have been a sufferer of this man, please contact the Particular Victims Unit of the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace at 863-298-6200. We need to make certain he’s held accountable for every part he has executed,” mentioned Sheriff Grady Judd.
Basta was incarcerated thrice between 2006 and 2011 in Tennessee for sexual battery costs.
In 2015, Basta was arrested after he groped a girl at a Lakeland Panera restaurant. In 2023, Basta was arrested for groping a girl at a Starbuck’s in Lakeland and charged with violation of probation and felony battery. He was launched from jail on October 18, 2024.
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