A South Milwaukee man has been arrested in upstate New York for luring a 12-year-old girl from her home and raping her, Seneca Falls Police Chief Timothy A. Snyder said in a news release.
The Seneca Falls Police Department arrested Brandon T. Szyszkiewicz, 26, early in the morning Sept. 25, according to the news release. Seneca Falls is a town of just over 9,000, about an hour outside Syracuse.
Police said they received information on Sept. 12 that Szyszkiewicz had lured the child from her home in Onondaga County after grooming her online. He then fled with the child to Seneca Falls, where local police apprehended him outside a hotel.
The child is safe and reunited with family, police said.
Szyszkiewicz was initially held in the Onondaga County Correctional Facility on other charges, and Seneca Falls police have since also charged him with five counts of first-degree rape and one count of endangering the welfare of a child. The rape charges are all felonies, while the endangerment charge is a misdemeanor.
Szyszkiewicz was arranged in Seneca County Centralized Arraignment Part Court and is being held on a $250,000 bail or a $500,000 bond. He will appear in Seneca Falls Town Court at a later date.
Along with Seneca Falls police, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, Seneca County Sheriff’s Office and the Seneca County District Attorney’s Office assisted in the investigation.
The investigation is ongoing, police said.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brandon Szyszkiewicz of Wisconsin accused of raping child in New York