U.S. Teen Sexually Assaulted, Strangled in Bahamas

[Jeff Dunsavage]

A 17-YEAR-OLD American girl was left traumatised after she was strangled to near unconsciousness and forced to perform a sexual act on a 41-year-old man in the Bahamas. The assailant reportedly was taken into custody shortly after he assaulted the girl on Monday morning.

The girl, whose parents recently purchased a vacation home on the island, was flown to New Providence for medical evaluation shortly after the ordeal.

The alleged assailant reportedly was responsible for the sexual assault of a woman tourist at the Club Med resort, but was placed on bail and fitted with an ankle bracelet pending the trial. However the woman never returned to the country and the charges were dropped. Sources on the island said the man removed the ankle bracelet a short time later.

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