MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Three child sex abuse victims in Miami-Dade County reported that Juan Espinosa’s crimes started when he showed them porn, records show.
In North Miami, Espinosa sexually molested a girl when she was 10 years old and started to rape her when she was 11, according to a police officer’s arrest report.
Espinosa “would lose his temper if she refused to have sex with him,” a police officer wrote about the girl in North Miami, according to the arrest report.
In Hialeah, detectives accused Espinosa of sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy from 2018 to 2022 and a 9-year-old girl from 2009 to 2020, according to arrest warrants.
Espinosa “had access to a ... daycare and pre-school owned by his spouse,” a detective wrote, according to the arrest warrant.
Miami-Dade corrections booked Espinosa, 65, shortly after 11:35 a.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
North Miami police officers re-arrested him at 3:20 p.m. on Thursday at TGKCC.
A Tampa Police Department detective had arrested Espinosa on Dec. 5 in Manatee County for child sex abuse in Hillsborough County, records show.
On Friday, Espinosa faced 18 charges in three cases in Miami-Dade County, according to court records.
In a Hialeah case, Espinosa faced 14 charges: Six counts of engaging in a sexual act with a child, three counts of lewd or lascivious molestation on a child, and five counts of sexual battery on a child.
In the North Miami case, Espinosa faced three charges: Engaging in a sexual act with a child, lewd or lascivious molestation on a child, and knowingly transmitting, distributing, or showing obscene or harmful material to a minor.
In a second Hialeah case, Espinosa faced a charge of lewd or lascivious molestation on a child.
Espinosa, who was born in Cuba, also had holds from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Florida Department of Corrections, according to inmate records
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.
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