OAKLAND — A local 37-year-old sex offender with an unusual name has been charged with raping a 12-year-old girl who went missing for several days after a chance encounter with the suspect, authorities said.
The victim, a girl known in court only as Jane Doe, disappeared for four days until turning up at a local hospital and requesting a rape test exam, police said. During the 96-hour ordeal, the girl’s mother conducted an investigation that was en par with the work later done by Oakland police detectives, according to court records.
The suspect remained on the loose for several days, until he was hospitalized after an unrelated robbery in West Oakland, according to police. Now he sits in jail in lieu of $300,000, with a court date set for November.
After Doe disappeared from her home while her mother was at work, leaving her phone behind, Doe’s mother went through the device and found text messages between her and another person that included “I love you” and calling one another “Babe,” according to police.
She questioned some of her daughter’s peers and tracked the girl to an America’s Best Value Inn in Oakland, where she gave hotel staff the cellphone number her daughter had been texting with. They confirmed that a man in his 30s had used the same number to rent a room, but had just recently checked out, authorities said.
One day later, the girl showed up at a hospital, and later to a police interview room. She said that she’d met a man at a bus stop and they’d talked on Instagram later, and met up at hotel rooms several times. She said on the most recent encounter he’d raped and stopped the sexual assault only when she began to cry, authorities said.
She knew the man by the name Soldier Real G Fareal. As luck would have it, in the entire city of more than 440,000, there is only one person with that particular name, and police knew him well.
Fareal, who has a listed alias of Hakim Elamin, is a registered sex offender with 2012 convictions in Alameda County for sexual battery and “unlawful sexual intercourse,” according to court records. After they identified Fareal, investigators convinced a judge to sign an arrest warrant.
Fareal remained an unwitting fugitive for the next several days, until Oct. 13, when he inadvertently made the call that led to his arrest. On that date, Fareal was robbed by someone at a West Oakland fast food restaurant, and injured so badly he required hospitalization. He called 911 for assistance, and police brought him into custody after running his name, authorities said.
Police say all of the meetings between Doe and Fareal occurred in hotel rooms, that he’d buy her fast food, and that he talked about wanting to have kids with her after learning her age. His prior sex offense also involved a minor, according to police.
