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Man Behind Bars Charged With Raping Young Girl

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A new charge has been issued against a man police describe as a suspected serial rapist.

Mauricio Morales is already in jail and charged with raping two Nashville women in separate cases.

Metro police believe Morales is the man behind the rape of a 10-year-old girl in her own South Nashville home near Old Hickory Boulevard and Nolensville Pike.

The alleged incident happened back in April.

Crime Scene investigators collected evidence from her room and the TBI crime lab determined the DNA matched Mauricio Morales.

A Grand Jury indicted him Friday on the new charges.

Morales had served time for aggravated assault in Houston before being deported from the U.S. in 2004. Police arrested him again back in July.