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Serial Rapist Also Assaulted 10-Year-Old, Police Say

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By BETH GADDIS | TBO.com

Published: October 26, 2007

Previous Coverage: Police Seek Other Crimes Linked To Rape Suspect

TAMPA – A serial rapist is responsible for an attack on a 10-year-old girl in August, Tampa police said today.

Investigators have charged Jerrod Pass with sexually assaulting the girl, police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said.

Investigators say the child was asleep in her North Tampa home on Aug. 18 when Pass entered her bedroom through an unlocked window and assaulted her. DNA evidence links him to the crime, they say.

DNA evidence also links Pass, 38, of Clewiston, to six other sexual assault cases and the attempted rape of a seventh woman, investigators said.

These attacks and a related burglary all occurred about two miles west of the University of South Florida during 2003, 2004 and this year, investigators said.

Tampa police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office have charged Pass with multiple counts of felony sexual battery, among other charges.

Local sex-crimes investigators said they have issued a nationwide alert through an FBI system to learn whether a serial rape suspect has victimized women beyond the Bay area.

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