Two Citrus County youths have been charged with sex offenses against other juveniles in two separate cases.
In the latest case, an eighth-grade 14-year old Lecanto youth was charged today with sexual battery on a 4-year-old girl.
He is accused of having the girl perform oral sex on him and of attempting to have intercourse with the child while he was babysitting her. The girl was taken to Citrus Memorial Hospital following the alleged attack.
The arrest report says that he admitted to the charges, and he was eventually taken to the Department of Juvenile Justice facility in Ocala.
In an earlier, unrelated case, a Floral City youth was charged on Tuesday with performing oral sex on two other male juveniles, also from Floral City.
The arrest report says the other boys were force to perform oral sex on the accused 13-year-old. The two victims told investigators that this had happened on several occasions over the course of three years.
Under questioning, the 13-year-old admitted to the acts, the arrest report says, in the victims' residences and the wooded area surroundingtheir homes.
The juvenile was arrested and taken to the Citrus County Detention Facility in Lecanto, where he was charged with five count of sexual battery on a child, and later transported to the juvenile detention facility in Ocala.
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