NORTH HILLS : Police Arrest Suspect in Rape of 11-Year-Old Girl
Police arrested a 17-year-old youth Tuesday on suspicion of raping an 11-year-old girl in front of her teen-age sister in a dark North Hills alley.
The victim, her 2-year-old brother and their sisters, ages 17 and 5, were on their way home about 10:15 p.m. Monday after eating dinner at a restaurant when a gunman accosted them on Roscoe Boulevard near Noble Avenue, according to Detective Craig Rhudy of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Van Nuys Division.
The assailant, described as a tall black youth who was wearing a Los Angeles Raiders jacket, ordered the children into a nearby unlighted alley, Rhudy said.
The gunman then forced the 11-year-old and the 17-year-old girls behind a blue dumpster, where he raped the younger girl at gunpoint, said Lt. Harvie Eubank.
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