Officers with the Huntsville Police Department arrested a man on Saturday for first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.

According to the department, Lorenzo Earskine, 24, who reportedly lived with the victim, raped the minor on October 31.

HPD's Special Victims Unit began investigating the crime on November 1, after Huntsville Hospital employees notified the department about a young patient who had allegedly been sexually assaulted before being admitted.

Earskine is currently being held in the Madison County Jail without bond.

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