Man sentenced to 20 years for attacks including assaulting woman in elevator at HEB in The Heights

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A 33-year-old has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after the Harris County District Attorney's Office said he pleaded guilty to two separate attacks, including assaulting a woman in an elevator at the H-E-B in The Heights.

Florian S. Kroll is a repeat sex offender.
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"This is a predator who has a pattern of attacking and hurting women when he is free to roam," District Attorney Kim Ogg said.

Kroll was sentenced Friday for sexually assaulting a woman on Jan. 16, 2020, in an H-E-B elevator. He has to serve at least half of that sentence before being eligible for parole.

Because Kroll pleaded guilty, he cannot appeal the conviction or the prison sentence.

A day before the H-E-B incident, he attempted to sexually assault a 16-year-old girl as she walked home from school in north Houston, records say. He was sentenced to another 10 years for that.
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The Houston Police Department investigated both incidents.



Kroll was convicted of indecent exposure with a child in an unrelated 2015 case and sentenced to two years for that. At the time of his arrest in 2020, he had failed to register his address as a sex offender.

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