Authorities say a new acquaintance sleeping in a car in a family’s yard climbed into a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom window and tried to sexually assault her.
Thammathorn Laohalertdecha, of St. Paul, who turns 26 on Saturday, was charged Thursday in Ramsey County District Court with first-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct, second-degree criminal sexual contact and burglary, according to the criminal complaint.
Thammathorn Laohalertdecha (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
The criminal complaint gave the following details of the incident:
Police say shortly after midnight on Wednesday, they were called to a house in the 390th block of Blair Avenue in St. Paul on reports that a man had broken into a girl’s bedroom through her window and tried to sexually assault her while holding a hand over her mouth.
The girl screamed and punched him and called family members on her phone during the struggle.
A family member who was alerted to the attack by the girl’s muffled screams came into the bedroom and charged the man, who tried to crawl back out the window. Instead, family members captured him and dragged him outside of the house into the backyard. When one family member let go of the man, allegedly so another family member could strike him with a piece of wood, Laohalertdecha managed to run away and down the alley.
During the investigation, authorities learned that a family member had met Laohalertdecha earlier in the week through a mutual friend. He was helping the man get a car and some money. During that process he took a picture of the man’s identification from Thailand so he could help sell him a car. He told police that Laohalertdecha was homeless and he was letting him sleep in a car in their yard but that he didn’t have permission to come into the house, even to use the restroom.
At one point, Laohalertdecha allegedly asked to speak to the 12-year-old girl but was told that she was a child.
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Later in the day on July 9, Laohalertdecha reached out to the family member who let him sleep in the car and said he wanted to meet to discuss what had happened. Laohalertdecha said he was on the 300 block of Hatch Avenue.
The family member called police, who went to the location and arrested Laohalertdecha. He refused to speak to the police.
Laohalertdecha was charged with one count of first-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct with someone under 14, one count of second-degree criminal sexual contact with someone under 14 and one count of first-degree burglary with assault on a person. He is being held on $200,000 bail.
No attorney for Laohalertdecha is listed on the criminal complaint.
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