Girl, 17, says she was abducted
A 17-year-old girl found bound and gagged in a Riverside County ravine Monday told police she had been abducted by two men as she walked home from her high school in Corona.
Corona Police Sgt. Neil Reynolds said officers were still trying to confirm the name of the young woman, who told police two men grabbed her as she was leaving school around noon Monday and threw her into a light-colored van. Police were also trying to confirm what school she attended.
“At some point she lost consciousness,” Reynolds said, recounting what the girl told police. “She said when she woke up she was in the ravine.”
A passerby found her with her mouth covered and her hands and feet bound. She was at the bottom of a ravine at the edge of a residential street in Corona adjacent to the Cleveland National Forest.
Reynolds said the young woman was upset but able to walk and answer investigators’ questions when officers went to her in the wash near the 3000 block of South Main Street about a mile from Buena Vista High School. She was fully clothed and was taken to a hospital for observation.
Corona police said details were scant and that they were trying to learn if she knew the two men who allegedly grabbed her.
“We are trying to determine who she is,” Reynolds said. “We’re trying to figure out what happened.”
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