MIAMI – A Miami man is accused of molesting a 9-year-old boy and then brushing off the incident when confronted by the child’s mother as “just something men do.”
Police arrested Reinaldo Reyes Llanes, 67, of Allapattah, on Saturday.
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According to an arrest report, the victim’s mother had taken him to a gathering where her employer had been hosting a get-together at his apartment at 3701 NW 22nd Ave.
Reyes Llanes, her employer’s neighbor, was also invited, police said.
Police said that as the gathering wound down and people began to leave, Reyes Llanes suggested that the woman and her son stay the night at his apartment, offering his bed while he would sleep on the floor.
“While lying on the bed, (Reyes Llanes) entered the bedroom, smacked the victim on his buttock over the clothing and then grabbed his front genital area over the clothing,“ the report states. ”(The woman) stated (her son) immediately turned to face her, at which point she intervened.”
Police said when the woman asked Reyes Llanes why he touched the boy’s privates, he said, while laughing, “I am Cuban. That is just something men do.”
The report states that Reyes Llanes, while speaking with police, denied molesting the boy.
As of Monday, Reyes Llanes was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a charge of lewd and lasicivious molestation of a child under 12.