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Police Charge Man In Infant Abuse Case<\/strong><\/p>\n POSTED: 7:37 pm HST March 14, 2008 HONOLULU — A man police accused of raping an infant girl was taken into custody Friday night and charged with the crime, police said.<\/p>\n Police charged Danny Franklin Friddle, 30, with 13 counts of sexual assault and child abuse on a girl under the age of 2.<\/p>\n They arrested him on Wednesday following an investigation that allegedly included a videotape of the assault.<\/p>\n Friddle was charged with eight counts of first-degree sexual assault, three counts of third-degree sexual assault and two counts of promoting child abuse.<\/p>\n Honolulu Police Department detectives arrested Friddle after they said he was connected to a videotape showing a man assaulting a young girl.<\/p>\n Detectives notified the mother after reviewing the tape and said the abuse might have started when the girl was a newborn.<\/p>\n No one appeared to be home Friday at the Kapolei-area residence where Friddle lived for more than a year and where he was arrested on Wednesday.<\/p>\n His car remained parked outside.<\/p>\n Neighbors said they didn’t know much about him because he usually worked late hours and didn’t socialize much, but they said they were shocked after learning of his arrest.<\/p>\n “The first thing I wanted to do was throw up. Second, was my daughter grows up in this neighborhood. A lot of children that I know, that I see, that I care about are growing up in this neighborhood,” neighbor Chezare Amakalea said.<\/p>\n Friddle became a Schofield soldier after moving from North Carolina.<\/p>\n A person who knows him said Friddle went AWOL after getting into a car accident and spent five months in the brigade. He tried to get reinstated in the Army, but was denied, the person said.<\/p>\n Friddle has been working as a security guard at Kam Four housing.<\/p>\n Public records show he was divorced from a woman in North Carolina and has two young boys.<\/p>\n He has several misdemeanors in that state, but nothing that would indicate a history of sexual abuse, officials said.<\/p>\n He and his second wife divorced in September 2007 and have a child.<\/p>\n Friddle is being held on a $100,000 bond. KITV.com Police Charge Man In Infant Abuse Case Police: Friddle Faces 13 Counts Of Sexual Assault POSTED: 7:37 pm HST March 14, 2008 UPDATED: 8:45 pm HST March 14, 2008 HONOLULU — A man police accused of raping an infant girl was taken into custody Friday night and charged with the crime, police said. Police … <\/p>\nPolice: Friddle Faces 13 Counts Of Sexual Assault<\/h2>\n
\nUPDATED: 8:45 pm HST March 14, 2008<\/p>\n
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