By LEANDRA ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
lrrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE sister of a young girl sexually assaulted over the weekend says the incident has left the child traumatised and the family struggling to cope.
“She’s just traumatised,” her distraught sister told The Tribune yesterday. “She is eating, but she’s just like, you know, when you are staring, and the tears just keep rolling down your eyes and you shaking, that’s how traumatised she is, and my mother is completely out of it.”
The young girl was reportedly playing with friends outside her home on Saturday evening when a man driving a white Nissan Skyline told her to get inside his vehicle.
After she entered the car, the man allegedly took her to an unknown location where he threatened and violated her.
Police said she was found shortly in the Spikenard Road area.
Officers attached to the Drug Enforcement Unit arrested a 42-year-old man in connection with the incident on Sunday night at his residence located off Carmichael Road.
The girl’s sister said she and her mother were at work when the incident happened.
She claimed her other siblings were to monitor the girl, but the child went outside to play with her younger sister, age 7, who later alerted the family to the girl’s disappearance.
“The baby came,” said the older sister, “and she was like a man take (my sister) in the car and he gone speed off and we was like ‘what, you serious? And she was like ‘yes’.”
The older sister and her mother left work abruptly to find the girl.
“She was not found,” the sister said. “They was saying that he dropped her off to the graveyard and because she knew the area, she began to run home and someone in the area, they helped her to get back home.”
She said her sister was crying when they saw her for the first time after the incident.
“We don’t think he is known,” the sister said of the alleged assailant, “because what we hearing from the people who was around, they saying like he came as if he was looking for something or whatever the case is.
“But I’m sure the police is going to give us swift justice because they are on their p’s and q’s right behind everything.”
The family will help the girl get counselling.
After news of the case spread on social media, some users accused the family of carelessness.
“It isn’t,” the sister said. “Things happen in life that nobody can control.”
“Stop posting what did not happen. They’re posting negativity, saying it’s baby mother drama and the father kidnapped her, a family member kidnapped her. No, none of it is true.”
The incident was one of two sexual assaults that allegedly happened on Saturday.
Police said a 40-year-old woman from Golden Isles Road reported that she was at the home of a man known to her after 3am Saturday when he sexually assaulted her.
Police are still searching for the culprit responsible for this assault.
Comments
Sickened 1 year, 4 months ago
Boy if this is one sick bastard who 1) doesn't deserve bail and 2) deserves the death penalty. Human Rights organizations better come out and pressure our Gov't to euthanize this animal... not keep him alive.
mandela 1 year, 4 months ago
The sick bastard once caught should never ever see the outside of prison again.
stillwaters 1 year, 4 months ago
Poor baby......my heart bleeds for her.
stillwaters 1 year, 4 months ago
The 3am rape.......sounds fishy
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 4 months ago
So the studies say most rapes are committed by persons known to the individual. Many of them date rapes. Just because girl is out with a male friend at 3AM, even one she expressed some form of attraction to, it does not mean she is open to a sexual encounter. I think that line confuses alot of men. She has the right to say no.
ExposedU2C 1 year, 4 months ago
DEU officers probably used this terrible incident as the ideal excuse to arrest someone else they have been after for quite sometime. Meanwhile, the real culprit who raped this young child is probably still at large. Can't imagine young children remembering and identifying a white Nissan Skyline, especially the sexually assaulted and traumatised young girl.
themessenger 1 year, 4 months ago
Still trying to figure out why a nine year old child would willingly get into a vehicle with a complete stranger.
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 4 months ago
Children are gullible ... because they're children. Teenagers can be gullible too
stillwaters 1 year, 4 months ago
True.....I find that teenaged girls are very easily swayed with words about how mature they are....men who are predators know this and play that card to get these girls. But we need to have explicit discussions with our young boys and girls, and especially teenaged girls.
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 4 months ago
So this is what Marco's alert is supposed to be used for
ExposedU2C 1 year, 4 months ago
This poor traumatized young girl will identify as the culprit anyone our law enforcement officials put in front of her with the whispered hint that "he is the one who did it".
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