A 14-year-old girl was raped in a parking lot by the man she had just met on social media. The suspect has since been sought by the police.
It was in a dark parking lot that the unthinkable happened. This Wednesday evening, August 10, a police source confirmed to the newspaper The Parisian thatan investigation for rape of a minor had been opened. In Saint-Denis, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, a 14-year-old girl was found by a woman, lying on her doorstep. The neighbor would then have alerted the police and the emergency services. The young girl will then explain that she was raped by a man in an underground car park on Avenue du President Wilson, closed since Monday August 8 at 10 p.m. to allow the installation of infrastructure for the 2024 Olympic Games.
The day before, the 14-year-old girl had run away from her parents’ home in Val-d’Oise. She had come to find a man, whose age is still unknown, met on social networks. Once she got to the date, he allegedly started kissing her and then forced her to have multiple non-consensual sex acts. Two used condoms were found in the parking lot and placed under seal. The main suspect remains untraceable at this time. The Saint-Denis police station, in charge of the investigation, is looking for him and is trying to clarify the gray areas of this case.
Internet, a den of sexual predators
On the Internet, many sexual predators take advantage of the candor of youngsters, who trust people online they know little or nothing about. According to the Swiss police, “predators manage to solicit a child after only 2.6 minutes on average“. A figure that sends shivers down your spine and brings to light one of the realities of the web.
Amélie, mother of a 13-year-old girl, told us that her daughter had been the victim of a sexual predator on the internet. “They even started talking about running away together, to get together and go on vacation. It would have taken one day when we would have argued and she would have left, she would have taken a train ticket“, she explained. It was only with the right reflexes that the young mother was able to avoid the worst for her daughter.
Victim or witness of sexual violence or incitement to debauchery against a minor, you can contact the free number 391924 hours a day, 7 days a week and contact the police.