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Raped teen's mother makes plea for help
THE mother of a 13-year-old girl is appealing to News Shopper readers for help to catch the man who raped her daughter.
The teenager was walking home with a friend at about 9pm, after an evening at the Megabowl, in Albion Road, Bexleyheath. The friends parted and when the youngster reached Devonshire Road, she was grabbed from behind and dragged behind a wall at the back of a funeral director's and raped.
The attack took place on April 29, and the girl's mother says she is disappointed there was no publicity about it, especially when there were witness appeals and street inquiries over an attack on another 13-year-old in an alleyway between Upton Road and Rochester Road, Bexleyheath, in September.
“I feel very disappointed and let down,” she told the News Shopper. “We feel we have been left very much on our own over this.” The police have confirmed their investigation into the attack is continuing.
The mother said she and her daughter were worried both attacks might be by the same man. “She has just started to go out again, but she is worried the man might see her and try and attack her again.
“Since the attack I have often seen youngsters congregating next to where it happened and I think to myself 'if only you realised what happened there'.”
Her daughter only recalls her attacker as wearing dark trousers and jacket but her mother is hoping anyone who knows or remembers anything will call Detective Sergeant Pat Carey at Bexleyheath CID on 020 8284 9236.
The Highways Agency has agreed to repair fences, improve lighting and cutback bushes at the alleyway between Upton Road and Rochester Drive where the September 19 attack took place.
3:03pm Monday 22nd October 2001
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