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Little Elm teen arrested for sexually assaulting 7-year-old girl
Brandon Funches
By Penny Rathbun, Staff writer
Police arrested a 17-year-old Little Elm resident Tuesday on reports he sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl while she was at his mother’s house in Little Elm.
Brandon Terrell Funches, also known as Bubba, faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child based on investigators’ interviews with a Little Elm mother and her daughter who said that Funches reportedly “put his private part in her tee tee,” a term the girl used for her vagina, and would try to sodomize her as well, according to the arrest warrant.
Family names are not used in order to protect the identity of the victim.
The girl’s mother told police that Funches’ mother watched the children over the Memorial Day weekend at her home in Little Elm. The victim’s mother said that her daughter told her Aug. 28 that Funches assaulted her there, according to the warrant.
In March or April, the mother allegedly took her daughter to the General Children’s Health Clinic “because she was saying that her private parts hurt,” according to the warrant. Her mother noticed that her vagina was swollen, red in color, and had small bumps, but believed bath soaps or wiping the area too hard after using the bathroom caused the symptoms.
A forensic interviewer met the mother and her daughter Monday at the Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County in Lewisville and heard more details of the assaults.
Sgt. John Singleton of the Carrollton Police Department said they were investigating the case and trying to find out if the in-home day care center was registered. Texas does not require in-home day care centers to register with the state.
He said in their investigation, he could not yet name the person they suspect of sexual assault.
Funches was released from Denton County Jail on a $65,000 bond Wednesday.
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LE Res. wrote on Sep 15, 2008 1:28 AM:
" I swear to God, I would push for the death penalty on this guy if this happened to my daughter. "
KH wrote on Sep 19, 2008 1:40 PM:
" The dates in this article don't coincide. The mother took her daughter to the doctor in March/April, but the teenager didn't assault the little girl until Memorial Day, and then she told her mother in August. Is this article accurate? It leaves me with a lot of questions. I don't doubt the little girl was molested, I just have a doubt that it was this teenage boy. "
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