MIAMI – A mother’s suspicion about her preteen daughter’s behavior led her to discover that she had been exchanging explicit text messages with a 37-year-old man, according to Miami police.
Authorities said after an undercover operation Thursday, Yosvany Fernandez Gonzalez is facing eight felonies.
A Miami Police Department arrest report states that the girl’s mother went to police Thursday to report what she found the day prior on her 12-year-old’s cellphone.
Authorities said the woman became suspicious after her daughter asked twice if she could step out of the house. Police said the woman refused and eventually, having become suspicious, took her daughter’s cellphone.
There, she found explicit conversations between her daughter and Fernandez Gonzalez, including “nude videos,” the report states.
Police said the girl told detectives that she had met Fernandez Gonzalez in her Little Havana apartment building as she went downstairs to help her father bring in groceries.
The report states that Fernandez Gonzalez, of Little Haiti, “approached her and asked her for her phone number and her age.”
Police said the girl made him aware that she was 12. They said he told her he was 27 and “did not mind.”
The report states that Fernandez Gonzalez then began sending explicit photos and videos of himself and told her, in Spanish, “I want to f— you.”
The girl told detectives that Fernandez Gonzalez “has tried to meet her in person on multiple occasions,” police said.
Police said on Wednesday, after the girl got home from school, Fernandez Gonzalez told her to meet him in her building’s laundry room, eventually leading to her mother discovering the explicit texts.
According to the report, after the woman reported what happened to police, detectives took over the girl’s cellphone to communicate with Fernandez Gonzalez undercover.
“I want to see you, because I like you, I want to give you a kiss,” police said he texted the detective, posing as the girl, in Spanish. “I can see (you) at my friends house, he left me the key, I need to go now, I (will) let you know when I get there, I’m just going to give you a kiss.”
Police said he added, “I only want to give you delicious kisses only.”
Authorities said the detective arranged a meeting with Fernandez Gonzalez at the Target shopping plaza at 3825 NW Seventh St.
Instead of encountering the girl, police said Fernandez Gonzalez came face-to-face with MPD’s Tactical Robbery Unit.
Police said they interviewed Fernandez Gonzalez, who confessed to sending the illicit texts and videos to the victim and signed and dated printouts of them.
Authorities said he also consented to a search of his electronic devices, which revealed four nude photographs of the victim.
Police arrested Fernandez Gonzalez on four counts related to the possession of child sexual abuse material, plus one count each of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child, traveling to meet a minor, sending electronic material harmful to minors and child solicitation.
As of Friday, Fernandez Gonzalez was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $55,000 bond. If released, he’ll be subject to house arrest.
Police, in a news release Friday, urged any potential additional victims of Fernandez Gonzalez to come forward and contact their Special Victims Unit at 305-603-6300.
“The Miami Police Department remains dedicated to protecting children from all crime and will work tirelessly to identify and bring those prey on the young to justice,” Officer Michael Vega, an MPD spokesperson, said.
