Sacramento deputies arrest sex offender. Girl, 12, says man asked for sex, followed her onto bus
A 36-year-old man previously convicted as a sex offender is now accused of following around a 12-year-old girl on a bus last week in Sacramento County and asking her if she wanted to have sex with him, sheriff’s officials said.
Kahlilullah Abdul Razaq was arrested on suspicion of contacting a minor with the intent of committing a sex act, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday in a news release. Razaq was arraigned Friday afternoon in Sacramento Superior Court.
The incident involving the girl reportedly began about 2:30 p.m. May 9 as she was waiting at a bus stop. Sheriff’s officials said a man — later identified as Razaq — approached her before asking her age and where she was going.
“The girl was scared and said she was 14, when the man asked her if she wanted to have sex with him,” sheriff’s officials wrote in the news release. “Right then, the bus arrived, and both the girl and the man got on the bus.”
The girl captured a photo of the man and sent the photo to her parents, saying she was being followed. Sheriff’s officials said the man got off the bus at one stop and stared at the girl through the window, before he got back on the bus.
The girl reached her final destination in east Sacramento County, and the man followed her off the bus, sheriff’s officials said. The girl immediately called 911, and the man walked away.
Deputies were sent to the area and searched for the man, but they did not find him. The deputies then took the girl home. A deputy ran the photo the girl had taken of the unknown suspect through facial recognition software and found a match. Sheriff’s officials said the suspect was then identified as Razaq.
Razaq was convicted in 2013 of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child younger than 14 years old in Sacramento County, according to the sheriff’s news release. He was sentenced to six years in prison and required to register as a sex offender.
While on parole in 2016, Razaq was arrested and later convicted of indecent exposure with an enhancement for a previous sex crime conviction, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He was released on parole early this year.
On March 22, Razaq was arrested in a prostitution sting after he offered money to an undercover female sheriff’s deputy in exchange for sex, sheriff’s officials said. He was released from custody five days later, pending prosecution.
Deputies arrested Razaq the day after the reported encounter with the 12-year-old girl. Sheriff’s officials said he was arrested on suspicion of violating parole and has been in custody since then at the Sacramento County Main Jail. He was being held without bail.
Detectives from the Sheriff’s Office child abuse bureau, investigating the encounter with the girl, arrested Razaq again while in custody on the latest criminal charge.
