Mom checks on 13-year-old, sees 32-year-old man running from her room, Michigan cops say

A 32-year-old was arrested after being accused of assaulting a 13-year-old in Michigan, officials said.

The teen’s mom went to check on her daughter and when she walked into the room she saw the window open and the screen popped off, according to a Dec. 30 post by Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson on the sheriff’s office Facebook page.

The woman saw the man, later identified as Brian Scott McCarrick, running away from the home, Swanson said.

McCarrick, a handyman, started communicating with the teen a month prior to the mother seeing him fleeing the home, Swanson said.

The conversations led to phones being dropped off to the teen, Swanson said.

The two would meet at the teen’s middle school’s parking lot and McCarrick would pick her up, take her to the bus stop and back, Swanson said.

During those trips, assaults would occur, according to the post.

That’s when McCarrick started befriending the victim’s friends and eventually dropped another phone off at the home, Swanson said.

When the mom found the man leaving the home, she called police, who were able to use the phone he left to gather enough information for a search warrant, Swanson said.

Officers learned where McCarrick lived and he was arrested on 11 felonies, including charges of criminal sexual conduct, accosting a child for immoral purposes and using a computer to commit a crime, Swanson said.

Genesee County is about a 70-mile drive northwest of Detroit.

This story was originally published December 31, 2024 at 1:47 PM with the headline "Mom checks on 13-year-old, sees 32-year-old man running from her room, Michigan cops say."