HOMESTEAD, Fla. – A state corrections officer was arrested Thursday after a 15-year-old girl's parents found out that he had sex with their daughter, authorities said.
According to an arrest report, the teen met Detrick Hussey, 35, last Friday at a Dollar Tree in Florida City.
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Homestead police said the teen exchanged numbers with Hussey, and they began corresponding via text message.
Hussey and the teen met up the next day and had dinner at an Applebee's in Miami and drinks at Fat Tuesday in Coconut Grove, the report said.
Police said Hussey drove then girl to his home, where they had consensual sex.
A witness who saw Hussey and the teen at Fat Tuesday is friends with the girl's mother, and notified her of her daughter's whereabouts.
Police said the girl's parents, who previously reported her missing, took her to the Rape Treatment Center, where a forensic exam was completed and her clothing was impounded by Homestead police.
Police said Hussey turned himself in to authorities on Thursday and confessed to having sex with the teen.
He was arrested on a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a child.