Good Samaritan finds 14-year-old on the side of the road after alleged sexual assault attempt
CLAXTON, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - A 14-year-old girl from Georgia was left on the side of the road after she says she was pulled into a van and drugged in an attempted sexual assault.
Duanne Nunnally‘s Monday evening commute started out mundane, but as he ed Bacon Ford Park in Claxton, he was flagged down by a group of teenage girls, WTOC reports.
“When I got out of the truck to see what was going on, they told me that two individuals had taken their sister and attempted to sexually assault and rape her,” Nunnally said.
In the pouring rain, Nunnally saw the 14-year-old girl lying on the ground in what he believed was a drug-induced haze. She was ing in and out of consciousness, and he could see that she needed help. He called for help and took the girls up the road to the hospital.
Shortly after, the victim’s mother arrived.
“She thanked me for being there at the right time and place and for stopping and helping her daughter,” Nunnally said.
Police met with the victim and Nunnally at the hospital to take their statements. The incident was recorded in the police report as an attempted sexual battery and rape of a minor under 16.
According to the girls, who are all sisters, they were walking home from McDonald’s when the victim says a van drove up behind her. She says she was grabbed, forced inside the van and made to do some type of drugs. She says she then blacked out.
Days after the alleged attack, the 14-year-old and her family are left trying to make sense of what happened.
Nicole Overton, the victim’s mother, says the situation not only makes her heart ache for her 14-year-old daughter, but she also harbors a sense of fear for her entire family.
“I have four other children. I have all girls. They are traumatized, just as well as [the victim] is traumatized, and it’s not right,” she said.
Overton says she typically doesn’t allow her kids to walk around alone in fear of a situation like this.
“This is summer. Kids should be able to get out by the park, going to McDonald’s, if they want. I mean, I normally don’t let my kids go out because of things like this, but of course, the one day I do,” she said.
The Evans County Sheriff’s Office stresses the investigation into this case is still in the early stages. So far, they have taken police reports and brought forensic invesigators in to begin with their investigation.
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