Robert Prussak, 57, approached the girl after she was separated from her family during a trip from France on April 22.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was standing outside the Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London, the trial at Isleworth Crown Court heard.
Mr Prussak then went with her to his flat and is accused of giving her bitter-tasting water allegedly containing the antihistamine Benadryl, which left her groggy, the court heard.
The pilot allegedly took the girl to Hyde Park and sexually assaulted her.
Mr Prussak was arrested later that day after he and the girl were spotted walking past the Israeli embassy by a Metropolitan Police officer who had been tipped off that she was missing.
He was investigated and said, “I was just trying to help her,” according to Sergeant Edward Lucas.
Mr Prussak denied all charges against him and a jury found him not guilty on Tuesday.
Prussak claimed he took the girl back to his apartment because it had started to rain and he wanted to find details online about emergency services. He said they eventually left the apartment to head to a fire station he had located.
In her closing statement, Prussak’s attorney Catherine Donnelly questioned why her client would take the girl “to one of the busiest parks, one of the busiest parts of the park” to sexually assault her. He also asked why she would wait until that point, when the effects of the Benadryl he allegedly drugged her with could “wear off.”
He added: “The flat was the place to do it, no one would have spotted him, [αλλά] while there he turned on the TV, gave her a glass of water and then did nothing.”
He was found not guilty of three counts of sexually assaulting a child under 13. He was also cleared of one count of kidnapping, one count of committing an offense of kidnapping with intent to commit sexual abuse and one count of administering a substance with intent.
However, on Tuesday 29 October, the Metropolitan Police re-arrested the 57-year-old man.
Robert Prusak, 57, was arrested on Tuesday following a Metropolitan Police investigation into child sex offences.
The American, of no fixed address, was charged today with one count of possessing indecent images of a child and one count of making an indecent image of a child.
The charges relate to an ongoing investigation into indecent images of a child found on an electronic device, Met Police said.
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