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Police on Wednesday night arrested a man for urinating on a 5-year-old black girl in an alley in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
MLive.com reported that parents of the victim told police that a white man in his 60s had urinated on their daughter.
Police spoke with a 5-year-old and two 7-year-old children who witnessed the incident. The witnesses and the victim said the man had also called the girl the N-word.
Police identified a suspect and arrested him at his home. He is being held in the Kent County Jail.
The children involved are being offered counseling.
UPDATE: Kent County prosecutors said the parents of the children determined the children "concocted the story to avoid trouble" after continuing to discuss the alleged incident.
"We appreciate the conscientiousness of the parents in bringing the matter to the attention of the police, and continuing to ask their children questions as new evidence was obtained," prosecutors said.
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