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Registered sex offender charged with sexual battery after grabbing 11-year-old in stairwell

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF — A registered sex offender who was convicted in 2012 of especially aggravated attempted kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault was charged on Saturday after grabbing an 11-year-old in a stairwell.

Metro Police say the child was walking up the stairwell in the parking garage at 101 James Robertson Parkway with her siblings when 39-year-old Matthew Lee Harber passed the girl, grabbed her buttocks and ran.

He was identified through surveillance video.

He remains jailed on a $75,000 bond.

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