Man who sexually victimized 2 girls in Miami Gardens molested 3rd in Hialeah, police say

HIALEAH, Fla. — A man already facing charges after police said he molested and exposed himself to girls walking near their schools in Miami Gardens is facing a new charge after authorities said he molested a third girl in Hialeah.

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In this case, investigators said Carlos Alberto Jean, 37, of northwest Miami-Dade, was not a stranger to the victim.

Authorities said the girl, now 14 and living outside of Atlanta, told investigators that Jean, a friend of her father’s, molested her in a vehicle in April 2023, when she was 10.

Hialeah police said the crime happened while her father was in a store at a shopping plaza at the corner of East Eighth Avenue and Ninth Street.

According to an arrest report, the girl told a forensic interviewer in Georgia that Jean had “asked her for permission to touch her private part” as she held her baby brother on her lap.

She told him no, but he “moved the child” and did it anyway, the report states. According to police, Jean stopped molesting the girl when her father returned to the car.

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A Hialeah Police Department detective, who observed the forensic interview remotely, said the girl told her stepmother what happened when she returned home, who later told the girl’s father.

The report doesn’t state why there was a three-year delay in reporting the crime.

Police said they went to Jean’s home in the 200 block of Northwest 150th Street on Thursday to arrest him on charges of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 and misdemeanor battery. He declined to speak with investigators.

As of Friday, records show he was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, pending a pre-trial detention hearing.

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