A burglar is heading to jail for the subsequent twenty years after pleading responsible to housebreaking and molesting a 12-year-old in Cobb County.
Malik Antonio Rollins, 29, pleaded responsible earlier this week to burglarizing two properties and molesting a younger lady whereas inside certainly one of them.
Prosecutors with Cobb Judicial Circuit District Legal professional Flynn Broady’s workplace say Rollins broke into an Austell condominium at 2 a.m. in February 2021.
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The sufferer reported waking as much as the sound of her bed room door opening and screamed, scaring Rollins off. He was capable of get away with two digital tablets.
The housebreaking was captured on a Ring digital camera and was shared with police.
Just a few hours later, Rollins entered a second residence inside strolling distance of the primary, prosecutors say.
When a person in that residence awoke at 4 a.m., he realized the patio door was open and his son’s gaming console was lacking. He then seen a light-weight on inside his youngsters’s bed room and located {a partially} bare Rollins in mattress together with his then-12-year-old stepdaughter.
The sixth grader mouthed “assist me” to her stepfather who ran to the kitchen to get a knife and run Rollins out of his residence.
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The lady was taken to the hospital the place she informed investigators she had been sodomized and molested.
Police have been ready to make use of the monitoring options on the stolen tablets that Rollins had did not disable to trace him to a distinct condominium in the identical complicated as the primary housebreaking sufferer.
Rollins’ mom answered the door and confirmed he was the person within the video. Investigators discovered the stolen objects inside.
He pleaded responsible to 2 counts of housebreaking, one depend of aggravated baby molestation and two counts of kid molestation. He was sentenced to twenty years in jail with out the opportunity of parole adopted by one other 20 years of probation. Rollins should register as a intercourse offender.
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