Suspect in assault on girl, 10, still on the lam

The man who is implicated in the recent abduction and physical assault of a ten-year-old girl remains on the run, while the police investigation continues.

The child was hospitalised after she was beaten during an apparent attempt to rape her by a man she knows. She was subsequently left in an unconscious state in a clump of bushes in Sophia on March 16.

A source told this newspaper that the child continues to say that she was struck about the body and face during resistance and is