A man has been arrested by authorities in California over a horrifying attack against a child.
The California pedophile was arrested for a violent sexual assault of a minor, police revealed.
The victim was so severely injured during the brutal attack that they had to be rushed to a children’s hospital for surgery.
The sex criminal, 40-year-old Arthur Dean Knapp, has a long criminal past, said police.
Chowchilla police and the Madera County Sheriff’s Office performed a search at Knapp’s residence.
Knapp, a known pedophile, was charged with the horrific sexual assault that occurred on Thursday.
Chowchilla Police Chief Jeffrey Palmer described Knapp as a “monster.”
While police didn’t reveal details about the assault, Palmer said the nature of the attack meant it could have only been committed by someone who is “absolutely a monster.”
Palmer also took a thinly veiled swipe at the state’s soft-on-crime policies, particularly involving pedophilia.
He noted that Knapp “should never be out on the streets.”
“To do something like this, he’s absolutely a monster,” said Palmer.
“When you take the innocence of a young minor like that, you’re a monster.”
“He is a dangerous person and quite honestly after this, he is somebody that