LOWELL — A 22-year-old Syrian refugee is free on a drastically reduced cash bail, but confined to 24-hour house arrest and a GPS device, after he was charged earlier this month with inappropriately touching a 13-year-old girl at a state-run swimming pool in Lowell.

At a Superior Court bail review on July 14, Emad Hasso’s original bail amount of $25,000 cash, set at his Lowell District Court arraignment on July 8, was reduced to $5,000 cash.

Hasso is charged with one count of indecent assault and battery on a person under 16.

Records that show who posted the bail were unavailable in court.

At a pretrial conference on Friday, Hasso appeared before Lowell District Court Judge Michael Brooks to ask for modifications to his house arrest.

Hasso’s attorney John Kittredge, asked that his client be allowed to leave his home for job interviews, medical appointments and conferences with his attorney.

Brooks allowed the request as long as Hasso gives the Probation Department appropriate notice. The judge denied a request that would have allowed Hasso continue his English language classes four times a week.

Hasso, who speaks little English, had been in the United States for about two months at the time of his arrest, Kittredge said.

As a Syrian refugee, he poses no flight right because he has “no place to go,” Kittredge said. Hasso, who is unemployed, receives assistance from the International Institute of New England, a nonprofit group with an office in Lowell that offers information and resources to refugees and immigrants.

Kittredge also requested that the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office turn over all 911 records, radio broadcasts and reports related the alleged incident, as well as names and addresses of witnesses who were and were not interviewed by the state Environmental Police, which oversaw the investigation.

Brooks allowed that request, as well as another Kittredge request for state funds to hire an investigator to probe the July 7 incident at the Raymond Lord Memorial Pool at the North Common Park in Lowell. The pool is owned and operated by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Prosecutor Sam Miller alleges that at about 5:30 p.m. on July 7, the 13-year-old girl reported that a man approached her, touched her upper thigh and asked her age.

The girl told him she was too young for him and walked away, Miller said.

The man allegedly began to follow the girl around the pool and approached her again while she was swimming, touching her upper thigh and again asking her age.

The girl replied that she is a “little kid” and to leave her alone, Miller said.

Other people at the pool, including the lifeguard, saw some interaction between Hasso and the alleged victim and intervened, Miller said.

Kittredge said Hasso told him he may have “accidentally bumped” the girl, but denies speaking to her or touching her inappropriately.

Hasso’s next court date is Aug. 29 for a final hearing before a trial date is scheduled.

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