An 18-year-old Oregon man will face trial after being charged with the March 28 sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl at the Madison Public Library, according to a Thursday Madison Police Department incident report.
The man, Alexander M. Cook, approached the victim and made crude comments when she was playing a computer game, MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain wrote in the report.
Cook then touched the child inappropriately on the outside of her clothing, at which point the child’s family members intervened.
Before the assault, Cook had been using a library computer to look up pornography, MPD detectives reported. Police charged Cook with first-degree sexual assault.
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