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   Ahmed Hersi Abdi   
      
   MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man is charged with raping a 10-year-old girl in   
   her apartment building in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.   
      
   A criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County charges 34-year-old Ahmed Hersi   
   Abdi with two counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct. If convicted,   
   Abdi faces the prospect of spending more than 30-years of his life in jail.   
      
   "People are sad, they're shocked, and they're concerned for the welfare of the   
   young girl, and they're looking saying, what happened? What could have been   
   done differently?" Mohamud Noor, a Somali community leader and a former   
   Minneapolis school board    
   member, told KARE.   
      
   Minneapolis Police squads were called to the Riverside Plaza Apartments at on   
   Sunday October 4 by an off-duty officer after witnesses told them a child had   
   been sexually assaulted. They told police they heard screaming from a third   
   floor hallway and saw    
   a young girl crying. The witnesses said a man had pulled her pants down and   
   done something to her.   
      
   The witnesses quickly found two off-duty Minneapolis officers were working   
   security in a nearby building.   
      
   "The Somalian community who came across this girl in crisis stepped up and   
   helped her," Minneapolis Police Dept. spokesperson John Elder told KARE.   
      
   "They trusted the officers enough to get them, to bring them into this   
   situation to provide aid."   
      
   The little girl told officers that a man had followed her onto the elevator,   
   and then into the third floor hallway. He asked her name, extended his hand to   
   her and asked her to shake hands. The girl told police that the man then   
   refused to let go,    
   ordered her to turn around, pull down her tights and at that point sexually   
   assaulted her.   
      
   She described her attacker as a dark skinned male with gray hair, a light   
   mustache and a red and white striped shirt.   
      
   Police viewed videotape of the attacker and the girl entering the elevator   
   together and identified their suspect as Abdi, he was located and arrested in   
   St. Paul wearing the same clothing.   
      
   Elder said that the quick arrest of Abdi illustrates the value of community   
   policing, the concept of officers getting out of patrol cars and having   
   positive contacts with people in their patrol routes. That includes going to   
   meetings and events, talking    
   to people on foot patrols and spontaneous interactions such as joining a   
   pickup basketball game in a park.   
      
   "If people trust their police department they're willing to call them, and so   
   far this year our officers have logged more than 70,000 positive contacts."   
      
   Attacks involving strangers and children are relatively rare, and some in the   
   Riverside Plaza area see it as an isolated case. But, just the same, the news   
   of the rape sent a chill through the area.   
      
   "I'm a mom, and I have girls, and I do understand her pain," Fadumo Yusuf, who   
   runs the East African Services non-profit, told KARE.   
      
   She said her daughter is the same age as the victim and goes to the same   
   school.   
      
   "I couldn't believe it, and my daughter was so scared. She was saying, 'I   
   cannot go anymore outside by myself'."   
      
   Yusuf said she expects the girl to receive counseling to get beyond the   
   emotional scars left by the attack.   
      
   Noor said that the suspect, Ahmed Abdi, is a familiar face in the neighborhood   
   and has complained of needing help for an untreated mental illness.   
      
   "You know it's somebody who is mentally ill, and he has been seeking help and   
   services and we feel that there's a huge gap in mental health services, a huge   
   unmet need."   
      
   By the same token, he said the community will embrace the victim and makes   
   sure nobody treats her differently.   
      
   https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/man-charged-with-rapin   
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