A 69-year old female resident of Grand Bahama was raped in her own home in Andros Town, Eight Mile Rock, Friday night.<\/p>\n
A 25-year-old man is expected to be arraigned this morning for crime.<\/p>\n
Police reports indicate that the victim was at her residence, shortly after 9:00pm on Friday evening, when she was attacked by a man who raped her.<\/p>\n
Another occupant of the home heard the woman screaming for help and came to the rescue.\u00a0 The culprit managed to escape through a window and ran into the bushes nearby.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Central Detective Unit were called to investigate the matter. They arrested a man from Andros Town in Eight Mile Rock.\u00a0 The 25-year-old is expected to appear in the Magistrate’s Court in Eight Mile Rock this morning.<\/p>\n
A similar incident occurred only last month when a Catholic nun was brutally beaten and raped in Eleuthera. Latterrieo Duncanson, 29, of Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, was charged in relation to the offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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