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Sex offender
accused of sex with teenage runaway
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff
Writer
Posted: Jul 01, 2009 10:11 AM
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TAMPA
— A 30-year-old registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday night after police said he had sex with a 16-year-old runaway.Shedrick Jenrette was found Tuesday having sex with the girl, police said. She first said
she was just friends with Jenrette, police said.
The two
were apparently living together. Two other men who also lived there, Joshua
Basso, 29, and Joseph Blesch, 22, witnessed the incident. Police said they will
not release the address or the teenager's name to protect
her.
Basso and
Blesch told police they'd seen Jenrette and the girl having sex and Jenrette
taking provocative photos of her, which police
found.
The girl
confirmed that she and Jenrette had sex more than once and that she was only 16,
police said.
Jenrette
asserted that the two had never been sexually involved and were just friends,
police said.
He was
taken to the Hillsborough County Jail, where he remains in lieu of $15,000
bail.
http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/flyer.do?personId=11359
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