Police have arrested a man and charged him with lewd and lascivious molestation of a girl, but he says he has a sleep-walking problem and does not remember doing anything wrong.
Dallin V. Tampa, 26, of Jacksonville, said he was staying with friends in Clermont because he had an internship in Orlando, according to the Clearmont Police Department.
But on Monday, police were called to the home about an incident that allegedly took place on Sunday at about 4 a.m.
The girl’s mother told police that her daughter ran into her room shaking and crying so hard she couldn’t understand what was going on. Finally, she understood that the girl was saying that Tampa had fondled her and touched her rear end with his penis and had taken pictures of her breasts with his phone.
The girl said the abuse lasted for hours and that she was so frightened she could not move.
She said when her family visited him he would always tell her how pretty she is, and “that when they were on vacation in Georgia, Dallin would talk about penises around her.” Her parents were unaware of these discussions, according to the arrest affidavit.
Dallin told police he got up during the night to go to the bathroom and heard the girl coughing. He said he rubbed her back, his hand began to hurt, so he laid down beside her and must have dozed off.
He awoke to the mother screaming at him.
“Dallin sated that he has had problems in the past of sleep walking but never got any assistance for the issue. Dallin advised he is not sure of what happened…,” but added that he knows the girl would not lie about something like that.
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