Dave Saffeels, 68, is accused of raping the 11-year-old girl three times last month
A convicted pedophile accused of raping an 11-year-old girl at a hospital told police the child was ‘sexually provocative’ as he denied her allegations.
Dave Saffeels, 68, who previously spent eight years in jail for sexually abusing a two-year-old in 2002, is accused of raping the 11-year-old twice at a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, last month.
They were both visiting a woman who had just given birth to twins and were left alone in a room, police say.
According to charging documents, Saffeels felt the girl’s groin then removed her clothes and raped her on a hospital room couch.
She later told police that he then performed oral sex on her and raped her a second time the next day, this time using a pink condom which he allegedly flushed down the toilet when he was finished.
Authorities say that not only did he rape her at the hospital, he later got in to the shower with her at her home and raped her again.
The alleged rapes took place at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield, Missouri, last month when both were visiting a woman who had just given birth to twins
He is also accused of sexually abusing a two-year-old at her home while her mother slept.
Saffeels spent eight years in jail for sexually assaulting a six-year-old. He is pictured in 2002 after his arrest
After that attack, the toddler refused to allow her father to give her a bath, covered her groin and cried ‘ouch’ and ‘no’.
Saffeels denies the allegations and told police that the child had enticed him before by ‘suggestively eating a popsicle’ in front of him.
He also said she wore ‘shorts’ and sat with her ‘legs spread’ in an attempt to accuse her of provoking him.
Saffeels denies all the allegations against him.
He was arrested during a traffic stop on Friday but it is not clear how police came to learn of the alleged child rape.
He is charged with three counts of statutory rape, three counts of statutory sodomy and one count of child molestation and is being held in Greene County Jail.