A 39-year-old man is charged by police after allegedly approaching a girl at a suburban park in Doubleview and coercing her to a nearby home where he indecently dealt with her.
A man has been charged by police in Western Australia after he allegedly kidnapped a nine-year-old girl from a Perth park and indecently dealt with her at a nearby home.
Police said the 39-year-old man approached the young girl, who was not known to him, at a park in Doubleview yesterday morning, in the city's north-western suburbs.The girl was able to leave the house and alert family members about the incident, police said. A short time later, the man was taken into custody and was charged by detectives from the WA Police Child Abuse Squad.
The man, from Doubleview, has been charged with two counts of indecently dealing with a child under 13, one count of kidnapping and one count of encouraging a child to engage in sexual behaviour.
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