NEW: Man accused of sexual battery on girl after baby shows DNA match – Palm Beach Post

BOYNTON BEACH

A 48-year-old man was arrested Thursday for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl after DNA evidence linked him to her child, city police said.

George Simms Jr. was charged for one count of sexual battery and taken into custody in Delray Beach by members of the U.S. Marshals South Regional Fugitive Task Force, said the Boynton Beach Police Department. He was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail.

The victim told detectives the rape occurred around Valentines Day 2016, the report said. The teen said she went to a party with a friend near Gateway Boulevard and Northeast Second Street in Boynton Beach and had a glass of liquor that made her feel tipsy, a police report said. Her friend left the party with a male to go to a store.

After the friend left, Simms started kissing the girl. She told him no as he proceeded to take off their pants and rape her, the report said. He left the house by the time she could put her clothes back on.

The age of consent in Florida is 18 years old, according to Florida Statutes. People between the ages of 16 and 17 can give consent to a partner to the age of 23. Anyone 24 years old or older commits a felony if he or she engages in sexual activity with someone under the age of 18.

The woman went to a clinic in Boynton Beach on April 28, 2016, and discovered that she was pregnant and due to give birth in October, the report said. In May of that year, authorities met with Simms, who denied having any sexual relationship with the victim and agreed to give a DNA sample.

The girl gave birth Oct. 14 and consented for a DNA swab of the child, the report said. On June 28, a laboratory report said that Simms cant be excluded as the biological father. It determined that the odds are 150 billion times more likely that Simms is the father versus a random male.

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