Gold Coast crime: A Gold Coast man has been charged with the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl
A Gold Coast man has been charged with the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl.
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A Gold Coast man has been charged with the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl.
Detectives launched an investigation in July after the girl’s family member notified police of the allegations.
Police will allege the man – who was linked to the girl’s family – raped the girl, then 10, in the family home in the northern suburbs of the Gold Coast as she slept in 2017 and 2018.
Detectives from the Child Protection and Investigation Unit arrested a 42-year-old Hope Island man on September 10 and charged him with two counts of rape.
He is due to appear in Southport Magistrates Court on September 27.
Detective Senior Sergeant Troy Penrose, officer in charge of Gold Coast CPIU, said allegations of sexual offences against a child were a priority for the service.
“Investigations of this nature are very difficult, especially investigations within the family environment,” he said.
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