George Louis Rivero26, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with breaking into a massage parlor in Hialeah, Miami, and raping a staff member.
The incident was reported around 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Oriental Massage Parlor at 6500 W. Fourth Ave. reported, according to city police.
Police officers arrived at the scene after reporting a violent robbery when they heard the victim’s agonized screams from a room at the back of the compound, news channel Local10News reported.
Rivero had entered a private area of the store, grabbed the woman’s hair and repeatedly punched her in the head and face.
He then forced her into a room to perform oral sex on her and raped her while continuing to slap her in the face and back.
The victim, fearing for her life, agreed to all of the attacker’s demands, but in a moment of inattention was able to text her sister, who alerted the authorities.
Surveillance video of the store obtained by police corroborates the victim’s testimony, although Rivero assures that she was only consensually stimulating his penis with her hands and that they had no other sexual exchange beyond that.
Rivero was charged with robbery with assault, sexual harassment and kidnapping. He is being held without bail.
In early March, Miami police arrested a 24-year-old man raped an 80-year-old woman in a neighborhood of Little Havana. The victim approached the lady from behind and dragged her to the back of a building before raping her.
A 28-year-old person was arrested at the end of the same month Attempted to sexually assault a woman in an aisle of a Walmart in Miamiis located on Northwest 79th Street.
According to data from a study by the National Network on Rape, Abuse and Incest, a woman is sexually assaulted every 68 seconds in the United States.
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