KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept 30, CMC – A 37-year-old taxi driver is due to appear in a court on Thursday after he has been charged with the rape and abduction of a 10-year-old girl earlier this month.
Police said that the accused, a resident of Canaan Heights in Clarendon, south of here, was charged with both offences on Monday, four days after he was detained by the police.
According to the police, the child on September 8 had exited a taxi while on her way to school when she was approached by a man who persuaded her to get into his vehicle.
Police said the child was abducted and taken to a neighbouring community where she was sexually assaulted in a heavily vegetated area before being released in the vicinity of her school by the abductor.
A report was made to the primary school staff and the child was taken to hospital.
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