Teenaged
rape victims
escape after days
in captivity
Police
have arrested a man who was part of a gang of four who abducted
two young Amerindian girls and held them for four days, having
sex with them repeatedly.
The girls
managed to escape from the harrowing ordeal on Tuesday by
ripping out a board from a squatter house aback of Le Meridian
Pegasus, where they were held.
A police
report stated that the girls aged 15 and 12 years old, who live
with their 71-year-old grandmother on the Linden/Soesdyke
Highway, were standing on the road near Land Creek around 11:00
hours on October 29, when four men pulled up alongside them in a
car.
A police
source said the two men emerged from the car and after stripping
the girls, ordered them at gunpoint into the vehicle.
The girls
were taken to a shack near the Kingston Seawalls where the gang
raped them repeatedly.
On
Tuesday, three of the men left the girls in the custody of their
other accomplice.
The source
said that a few hours after the three men left, their
accomplice, locked the girls in the shack and went out.
Sensing a
good opportunity to escape, the girls proceeded to rip out a
board from one of the walls and obtained their freedom.
They
reported their ordeal to the police, who quickly apprehended one
of the suspects.
The
hunt is on for the other three men.
Friday,
November, 05, 2004