Daytona Beach, FL – A Port Orange man previously convicted of attempted 1st-degree murder and robbery gets 25 years in prison for attacking a 12-year-old girl on her way to school last August.
Jayzel A. Hendrieth was sentenced on Thursday in the incident at the campus of Silver Sands Middle School in Port Orange.
It happened around 8 AM on the morning of August 26th just after her parents had dropped her off across the street, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
The 28-year-old man will get 20 years of sex-offender probation once he’s released, according to Spencer Hathaway, a spokesman for 7th Circuit State Attorney RJ Larizza.
“Hendrieth approached a child on her way to school when he attacked her, punching her several times throughout her body,” Hathaway noted. “The child forcefully fought her attacker when a Silver Sands Middle School employee arrived on scene, causing the defendant to flee.”
Authorities caught Hendrieth later that day thanks to the help of several witnesses who were able to positively identify him as the attacker based on appearance, including clothing and a backpack he was carrying at the time of the attack.
Hendrieth – who served prison time and was on probation for a 2004 incident – was convicted of child abuse, attempted sexual battery of a child and false imprisonment.
The girl was not seriously hurt in the attack, according to a recorded phone message sent to parents by school officials later on that day.
Jayzel A. Hendrieth (mugshot courtesy Volusia County Jail)
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