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AAP General News (Australia)
06-21-2001
WA: Police describe rape of five year old
A five-year-old girl in Western Australia, who suffered severe internal injuries and
a fractured skull in a sexual assault, remains in a critical condition.
Police at Kununurra, in Western Australia's far north, have described it as one of
the most vicious sexual assaults they've ever seen.
Police allege a man took the girl into bushland where he sexually assaulted her and
tried to strangle her with a length of rope.
They say he fractured her skull with a rock before taking her to hospital, claiming
she fell over.
Detective Senior Sergeant ASHLEY GOY says the girl was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital
for emergency surgery, where she remains in a critical condition.
The assault happened on Monday night.
Senior Serg
eant GOY says the Northern Territory police sexual assault unit is collating
forensic evidence from the site of the assault.
A man appeared in a Kununurra court on Tuesday, charged with causing grievous bodily
harm, attempted murder and two charges of sexual penetration of a child under 13 years.
He was not required to enter a plea and was remanded in custody to appear in Broome
Magistrates Court on July 2.
AAP RTV lk/wz/hn
KEYWORD: GIRL (PERTH)
THIS MENTIONED TOWN HAS HEAPS OF ABORIGINALS.
06-21-2001
WA: Police describe rape of five year old
A five-year-old girl in Western Australia, who suffered severe internal injuries and
a fractured skull in a sexual assault, remains in a critical condition.
Police at Kununurra, in Western Australia's far north, have described it as one of
the most vicious sexual assaults they've ever seen.
Police allege a man took the girl into bushland where he sexually assaulted her and
tried to strangle her with a length of rope.
They say he fractured her skull with a rock before taking her to hospital, claiming
she fell over.
Detective Senior Sergeant ASHLEY GOY says the girl was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital
for emergency surgery, where she remains in a critical condition.
The assault happened on Monday night.
Senior Serg
eant GOY says the Northern Territory police sexual assault unit is collating
forensic evidence from the site of the assault.
A man appeared in a Kununurra court on Tuesday, charged with causing grievous bodily
harm, attempted murder and two charges of sexual penetration of a child under 13 years.
He was not required to enter a plea and was remanded in custody to appear in Broome
Magistrates Court on July 2.
AAP RTV lk/wz/hn
KEYWORD: GIRL (PERTH)
THIS MENTIONED TOWN HAS HEAPS OF ABORIGINALS.