A black registered sex offender has been charged with raping a 3-year-old girl

Police say that 49-year-old Leroy Junior Chandler has been arrested on charges of capital sexual battery and false imprisonment of a child under 13. Chandler is registered in Florida as a sex offender. Police arrested Chandler after they received a call about the sexual assault of a child in Bradenton. Chandler was arrested and confessed. He's being held in the Manatee County Jail.