‘I should’ve asked for a lawyer’: How police in Broward made arrest in sexual assault of child

A Broward County man is facing a slew of charges after admitting to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl, police say.

On Wednesday, Pembroke Park police got a call from a hospital about a girl who came in reporting a sexual battery. The following day, officers went to an apartment in the 3700 block of Southwest 52nd Avenue to meet with 37year-old Nivenson Sarazin.

Jail records indicate that Sarazin faces more than 20 charges, including sexual assault of a person under 12, battery of a child and possession of child sexual material.

Sarazin agreed to speak with investigators — and admitted to kissing and sexually assaulting the child, a relative of his girlfriend, according to police. He provided intimate details of his actions, also stating that the girl told him “no,” asked him to stop and urged him not to “do it.”

The confession came after officers duped him into believing that the girl secretly recorded video of him engaged in sexual activity with a cellphone that she stole from school, according to an arrest report.

While questioned, Sarazin

told investigators he knew it was “not normal to touch a minor” but said he “loses control,” the report states. He said he couldn’t recall how many times the sexual abuse had occurred.

The girl told police she was sexually assaulted more than five times, according to the report.

She also said Sarazin forced her to take inappropriate photos on his cellphone, which police later seized.

As police peppered him with questions, Sarazin paused, taking time to respond because he was “thinking of the decisions I’ve made,” the report says.

Before refusing to answer any more questions, he said: “I should’ve just asked for a lawyer.”