Man charged with sex assaults on Tavares girl

TAVARES – A 19-year-old Spring Hill man was charged with sexually assaulting a girl under 12 after the girl told a friend the man had repeatedly touched her and forced her to touch him between March and April.

According to an arrest report, the abuse came to light when the girl's friend made her tell another adult.

The victim said Gregory Allen Mancuso, 19, had put his hand down her pants multiple times and and touched her and that he had forced her to touch him as well. He also made her watch a video of two children having sex.

She said Mancuso called these sessions "bonding time."

Mancuso was charged with sexual battery on a victim under 12 was was booked into the Lake County Jail without bond.