A former daycare worker has been found guilty of abducting a 5-year-old girl from her Philadelphia elementary school and then brutally sexually assaulting her with a sharp object. Christina Regusters was charged with six crimes including kidnapping and sexual assault of a child. The 21-year-old sat emotionless Friday morning as the jury of seven women and five men threw the book at her inside a packed courtroom at Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center.
She allegedly led the girl to a nearby home, put her in a laundry bag and carried her up into her bedroom. There, prosecutors say, Regusters blindfolded and stripped the girl, put her under a bed and sexually abused the child with a sharp object. The entire ordeal lasted for 19 hours, prosecutors say.
The girl was then dumped in an Upper Darby, Pa. playground wearing only a T-shirt. She was later found by a passer-by. The girl sustained severe injuries in the attack. Doctors had to give her a temporary colostomy to allow her body to heal. Regusters was arrested a month later and after a lengthy grand jury investigation was indicted on six crimes: Aggravated assault; Involuntary deviant intercourse of a child involving serious bodily injury; Kidnap to facilitate a felony; Unlawful contact with a minor involving sexual offenses; Unlawful restraint of a minor with a risk of a bodily injury; Concealment of the whereabouts of a child.
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