Intoxicated Intruder Sexually Abused Sleeping Child: Cops

SHOREWOOD, IL — An intoxicated man slipped inside a Shorewood home and sexually abused a sleeping child, police said.

Shocked adults threw 23-year-old Prince Barajas out of their Glen Mor Drive home when they discovered him there about 4 a.m. Saturday, police said.

Barajas then went to another house, police said, where he woke up a resident and asked to be let inside because he was cold. Temperatures were hovering near zero at the time.

Police called by the second resident arrested Barajas on a trespassing charge. He was later released on bond.

The law then learned of the sexual abuse allegations, and Barajas was arrested again Monday. He was booked into the Will County jail on additional charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and residential burglary. Barajas remains in custody.

Barajas lives about 3 miles away on Mountain Ridge Pass in Joliet. He apparently was trying to make his way home on foot when he got cold, broke into the one house, attacked the child, and then tried to get into the second residence, police said.

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