A 28-year-old Mesa man told her "I did something confessed over the weekend to really bad." sexually abusing a 13-year- According to a court document, old girl, stating he Branscom abused the girl developed feelings for the three separate times, girl because she "looks like beginning January 2011 when her mother," authorities said. the girl was 12 and her Bruce Branscom was arrested mother was in the hospital, Sunday on suspicion of three and most recently about three counts of sexual abuse and weeks ago. During one sexual misconduct with a occasion, Branscom apparently minor, according to Mesa molested the teen while her police. mother was asleep in the same Police said Branscom admitted bed. to the abuse during a During an interview with conversation New Year's Day police, the girl said with her mother. The girl's Branscom told her "not to mother reportedly told tell anyone" about what he Branscom how much she was doing, the court document considered him a part of her states. family shortly before the man
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