Police say the suspect is not related to the victim.

Although police say the house was abandoned, the landlord has told 9News that six tenants have been renting it since December.

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Vigilante Arson at Rape Scene

A day after police began investigating the rape of a nine-year-old Hamilton girl the house where it allegedly happened was set on fire.

Hamilton police tell 9News that they have no doubt it was an act of retaliation by vigilantes.

The father of the rape victim is pleading for calm in the neighborhood and is asking his neighbors not to target Hispanic members of the community.

The victim's father said that justice will not be served by burning buildings or by attacking innocent people.

"Everybody thinks they're doing this for me or my daughter to get justice, but justice isn't being caught by burning down houses or beating up innocent people," said the victim's father.

"Because what happened to that house is wrong, but the house itself is innocent. You know, the house didn't do nothing, the owners of that house didn't do nothing," he said.

"Somebody innocent is going to get hurt by this," said Donna Morgan, the landlord's girlfriend.

"You don't go out and hurt all Mexicans because of the act of one," she said.

Police detective Mark Hayes said Tuesday night that the Hamilton Police does not condone vigilantism.

Police also say now they will be forced to spend time and resources that could have been used to search for the rape suspect to search for the arson suspects instead.

The vigilantes' act may also make it even more difficult to retrieve evidence.

"You know, the police are going to do their job and they're going to catch this guy," said the victim's father.

But he is also worried that vigilantes might take the law into their own hands before the case can be heard.

"I hope the neighborhood doesn't catch him, because then he won't even make it to court," the victim's father said.

Hamilton police are also worried a language barrier is keeping them from tracking down the man who raped the nine-year-old girl.

Hamilton's only Spanish-speaking officer is concerned that because the Tri-state's news broadcasts about the crime are in English, non-English speaking people may not even know about the crime -- or who the suspect is that police are looking for.

So he's sent out a messages in Spanish (see "Audio/Video" above) through local newscasts Tuesday night in hopes of alerting the Tri-state's hispanic community.

His message, translated, was:

"The Hamilton Police Department is looking for a suspect named Mario whose committed a crime. He abducted a nine-year-old girl and after abducting her. He abused her sexually. He raped her.
It's very important if you have information on mario you call Hamilton Police."

Hamilton police do say they have leads on the suspect in the rape case, but so far no suspects in the arson case.

The suspect is described as a hispanic male in his early twenties, 5'4"-5'6" tall, 130-140 pounds with a small goatee on his chin.

Police say the suspect has short, spiky hair and a tattoo of a bird (un pájaro) on his left shoulder. He also goes by the street name, "Mario."

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