Body cam footage shows the shocking moment an Ohio sex offender flagged down police on the highway to reveal he had assaulted a child.
In the newly released video, 22-year-old Mark Fry can be heard sobbing while sitting in the back of a police cruiser in Richfield during the July incident.
‘I’m sick,’ a shirtless Fry cries out the officer, while holding his head down in the back seat.
‘I understand that you’re sick, but what did you do?,’ the officer asks Fry.
Newly released body cam footage shows an Ohio sex offender flag down police to admit he abused a child
Mark Fry is heard crying while sitting in the back of a police cruiser in Richfield back in July
He told the officer he is ‘sick’ and that his young victim would ‘tell you about it’ while in the cruiser
Fry said he was trying to get to the police station, but did not know where it was located
‘I hurt her,’ Fry is heard crying out. Officer responds, ‘Yeah? How?’
The offender then replies: ‘In a way somebody should never be hurt.’
The officer said: ‘You’re obviously here for a reason,’ and the man replied: ‘She’ll tell you about it.’
The young victim was still sitting in the back of Fry’s vehicle at the time he flagged down police, Fox 8 Cleveland reports.
Fry pleaded guilty to the child sex crimes in Cuyahoga County and received a sentence of 35 years to life
According, News 5 Cleveland, Fry reportedly raped the child, who was just seven-years-old, after he took her from her home on Ruby Avenue hours prior to the police incident.
Fry said during the hysterical incident he was trying to get to the police station, but did not know where it was located.
‘I pulled in here and stopped, he pulled in here and said, ‘take me to jail… I did something really bad,’ the officers says in the video.
‘What happened with Mark Fry is by far the exception to the rule,’ Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Jeff Schnatter (pictured) said
Fry’s court case had just closed. He pleaded guilty in Cuyahoga County Court
According to the local news station, Fry’s court case had just closed.
Fry pleaded guilty to the child sex crimes in Cuyahoga County Court. He received a sentence of 35 years to life.
‘What happened with Mark Fry is by far the exception to the rule,’ Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Jeff Schnatter said in a statement to Fox 8.
‘Obviously there’s a lot of news about victims of sex offenses coming forward, so I think there’s a feeling of safety to come forward.’