Underage 'serial granny-rapist' finally set to face justice (2025)

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A Milwaukee teenager is set to be tried in adult court after allegedly sexually assaulting a 53-year-old woman in a horrifying random attack.

Authorities released surveillance footage allegedly showing Tremonte Kirk, 17, stalking victim Charlotte Nozar in a parking lot on December 18.

Cops said Kirk appeared to stop walking as he noticed Nozar had a 'noticeable limp' following a recent surgery, and followed her as she walked to her nearby apartment block.

Kirk then allegedly followed her into her apartment elevator, where he stomped on her injured leg before raping and strangling her, prosecutors said.

Nozar spoke out in January after Kirk was initially processed as a juvenile, and toldWISN that she remembered her attacker threatening her life, telling her: 'Shut up and let me do what I'm going to do, and you'll make it out alive.'

'Don't you know this is Milwaukee? B**** I'll kill you,' she recalled the attacker saying.

After the savage assault, prosecutors said Kirk was then seen in surveillance footage sprinting from the apartment building about 20 minutes later, adding that the 17-year-old was identified through DNA at the scene.

A criminal complaint said he was tied to the location through an ankle monitor from a previous sexual assault on an elderly woman in 2021, when he was just 13.

Nozar said she was left crippled by the vicious attack in her apartment building and will likely require at least two additional surgeries after suffering nerve damage to her injured leg.

Kirk was initially processed through Milwaukee County's juvenile system because he is a minor, and Nozar said she spoke out to urge authorities to escalate his charges due to his history of similar attacks.

In January, before prosecutors decided to charge him as an adult, she told WISN: 'Where's the justice in this? Make it make sense. Why has he been slapped on the wrist so many times?'

'He's not going to take my sense of self. He's not going to take who I am,' she added.

Kirk's charges were upgraded this week to five felonies including second-degree sexual assault, newly reported court filings showed.

In a chilling detail, Nozar said she struggled to initially identify Kirk when she was shown a photo lineup because he was frowning in the picture, and she told officers 'it would have been easier... if he was smiling in the photos because he had been smiling the whole time he sexually assaulted her', court records said.

Nozar said she was glad to see Kirk would be charged as an adult and hoped it would lead to a harsher sentence for the alleged serial attacker.

'It's too late for anybody to save me,' she said.

'But I canhelp prevent this from happening to the next person, and I don't want anybody to have to go through this.'

Kirk is scheduled to make his first court appearance charged as an adult on Thursday.

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