Between where a 16-year-old Lauderhill girl got off the school bus and her home, police say she was forced to survive after being hit with a box cutter before being raped in a driveway last week.
Police say the “calm demeanor and the way he preyed on the victim” indicates that the suspect has done this before.
That suspect, 39-year-old Jermaine Henderson, a Miramar resident of 5 feet 6 and 220 pounds, has been in the Broward County jail since Tuesday. He is indicted on two counts of assault with a weapon, sexual abuse of a victim over the age of 12.
No guarantee has been provided. Henderson bonded after a 2019 felony arrest and then forfeited that bond by failing to show up for his arraignment. Henderson also had two civilian arrest warrants for child support arrears, according to his online prison records.
The warrant says that the 16-year-old girl looked at a photo array and “pointed to the photo that shows Henderson as she repeated ‘That’s him’.”
Crocs, a box cutter and a pickup truck
According to the arrest warrant, the 16-year-old got off the school bus near the corner of Northwest 38th Avenue and Sixth Street and went home around 4 p.m. on April 11. the street as a white pickup truck pulls into a driveway in front of her. A man stops the girl and talks to her.
According to the arrest warrant, the victim described the man as heavily built with brown eyes, a beard, cropped hair, between 5 and 5 meters tall, wearing an orange construction shirt, work boots and khaki pants. She said he told her she “got from point A to point B pretty fast” and asked her if she was on the track team. He then asked to see the multicolored Crocs she was wearing. She hung one on the tailgate of the truck.
He grabbed her ankle, she said, and put a box cutter on it. He told her to follow his orders and not get hurt. He then put the box cutter to her throat and walked her to the open passenger door. After opening the passenger door to hide them from casual passers-by, she said the man had raped her.
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The bleeding girl then went to HCA Westside Hospital for treatment, met with Plantation and Lauderhill police officers, described the truck and then to the Sexual Assault Center for an examination and a rape kit.
Two days later, the search warrant says, detectives went door to door in the neighborhood after walking through it with the 16-year-old, who recalled details such as where she crossed the street after getting off the bus and why. she where crossed. she did. On April 14, a resident emailed police that her surveillance video was picking up something.
After police viewed the surveillance video, a search for a license plate reader found a white 2008 Ford F-250 pickup truck with paper license plate DDI2994, later changed to a regular tag 28BMDQ. It belonged to a plantation man who also appeared on a Plantation police report on April 12.
The truck owner had gone to USA Tires International with a friend to complain about work on the truck, and the argument had grown so violent that the Plantation police were called. The friend had actually been the one who had taken the truck to work.
The friend, the search warrant said, was Jermaine Henderson.
