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TAMPA - A 22-year-old sexual offender was arrested after a 14-year-old girl told police he enticed her to a hotel room and had sex with her.
Harry Huggins Jr. had moved to the Tampa area from outside San Antonio, Texas, likely around July, said Tampa police Detective Jackie Potenziano. He lived with an aunt before moving near the University of South Florida, she said.
In August, he met the girl on a bus, and persuaded her to accompany him to University Mall and a movie, then took her to a motel where they had sex, according to police. The girl told her family what happened a few weeks later, and they reported it to the police, Potenziano said.
Texas authorities told the detective Huggins was a registered sex offender who had assaulted an 8-year-old girl when he was 15. She tracked him to the woman's house in Tampa and arrested him Oct. 21. He has been charged with lewd and lascivious battery, and was released from the county jail the next day after posting $15,000 bail.