Repeat offender accused of breaking into home, climbing into childs bed as family slept

An Oklahoma man with a lengthy criminal history has been arrested after allegedly breaking into a family’s home and climbing into bed with their young child. Authorities were called to a home in Oklahoma City after Josh Hodnik was jolted awake by his 11-year-old son who told him there was a strange man in his bed on Saturday, March 14, according to KOKH. “My son woke me up, and he said, ‘Hey, there’s a man in my bed,’” Hodnik told the outlet. Hodnik said he did not believe his son at first, chalking it up to the young child having a nightmare or imagining things.“It just kind of shocked me, shook me,” Hodnik said.“I was like, ‘What, what do you, what do you mean?’ I thought he was sleepwalking and, and, and he mistook, he was imagining things or whatever.” However, when Hodnik went to check the bedroom, he realized his son was telling the truth. “There was a grown man laying in the bed,” Hodnik said, KOKH reported.

“He brought his own blanket, had one sock on, no shoes on.”Hodnik recalled his two children playing outside in the family’s yard the night before the incident.When the kids came back inside, the father said they did not lock the front door and he failed to check it before going to bed. “I didn’t go check the front door after they played outside on Friday night,” Hodnik told KOKH.

“And that was my fault.I wish I would have, but I shouldn’t have to.

OK? We shouldn’t live in a society where somebody else walks into your front door.”The man, identified as 46-year-old Charles Bradford, was subsequently taken into custody and charged with first-degree burglary and five misdemeanors, according to the outlet. Following his arrest, local reports uncovered Bradford’s lengthy criminal history, including multiple arrests on assault and larceny charges.In 2002, Bradford was convicted of first-degree manslaughter after killing his cellmate while in prison, KOKH reported. The revelation surrounding Brad...