ASPCA Agent Arrests Suspect In the Rape of a 14-Year-Old

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A security guard was arrested on rape charges after a special agent for the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals found a naked 14-year-old girl in the bathroom of his guard shack on Sunday, officials said.

Dustin Gill, 28, was charged with rape in the second degree, endangering the welfare of a child, and sexual abuse, a spokesman for the ASPCA, Joseph Pentangelo, said.

An ASPCA special agent, Richard Ryan, was investigating a complaint phoned into the agency’s hotline on December 11 that Mr. Gill had taken a dog and killed it. When the agent arrived at the guard shack to question Mr. Gill on Sunday, the guard answered the door wearing no shirt and with his pants undone, sources said. Inside, Mr. Ryan found the girl in a bathroom, wearing nothing.

Mr. Gill told Mr. Ryan that the girl was his girlfriend, but an arrest was made at the scene. ASPCA agents, who are often former police officers, are empowered to carry weapons and to make arrests.

The ASPCA said it was the girl that made the complaint about the missing dog. She claimed Mr. Gill took the dog — a three-month old white pit-bull terrier — from her after an argument. He later told her that he had abused and killed the dog, she told investigators. The ASPCA is still investigating the whereabouts of the dog, Mr. Pentangelo said.

Mr. Gill is accredited to carry a weapon as a security guard for FJC Security Services, a New York State security company with an office in the Long Island City section of Queens, Mr. Pentangelo said. He was stationed in a guard shack outside a building formerly identified as the Neponsit Health Care Center at 149-25 Rockaway Beach Boulevard when Mr. Ryan arrested him.

An assistant to a director at the company, Nicole Rochester, refused to confirm whether Mr. Gill worked for the company.


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