Girl's cat runs into neighbor's house, where she is raped after trying to retrieve it, police say

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FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12 NEWS) - A 9-year-old girl followed her
loose cat into a Fort Pierce man's apartment Wednesday, where
she was raped, police say.

Fort Pierce police were alerted Wednesday by Lawn Wood Medical
Center's emergency room, where the girl's mother took her for
treatment of injuries to her privates.

She told police that she was playing outside with a friend when
the friend asked her to get her cat. She did, but the cat got
loose and ran into an open door at 802 N. 23rd St. She followed
and found a man later identified as Emanuel Dawson, 53, sitting
on a couch, according to a Fort Pierce police report.

He told her the cat was in the apartment, so she retrieved the
animal from a laundry room. When she tried to leave, she told
police that Dawson blocked her path. She tried to leave several
times, but Dawson repeatedly blocked her exit, according to the
report.

The arrest report listed Emanuel as 5'6" and 270 pounds.

When police went to Dawson's home, his daughter Wanda answered
and said he was upstairs. When police asked that he come down
and speak to them, he jumped out of a second-floor window,
attempting to escape, according to the report. He was taken into
custody.

When interviewed, he denied having sexual contact with the
victim. He told police he jumped out of the window because he
thought "it was bad guys coming to get him," according to the
report.

Dawson was jailed on a felony charge of sexual assault on a
person under 12 years of age.

Dawson just got out of prison in December after a 7-year prison
term on a conviction for burglary to an occupied dwelling in
2008, according to state prison records. He's been in and out of
prison in Florida since 1980 -- nine prison terms -- on charges
of second-degree murder, attempted robbery, escape, cocaine for
sale or purchase, attempted extortion and constructive
possession.

A broken and ashamed Wanda Dawson -- the suspect's adult
daughter -- tells CBS12 the she let her father move in with her
when he was released. She says her father's second-degree murder
conviction was for the killing of her own mother in 1979.

Now Wanda Dawson worries that he may also have sexually attacked
her own daughter.

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