US POLICE at Lake Worth in Florida won a race against time when an officer found a missing eight-year-old girl buried under rocks inside a bin, authorities said.

A MAN kidnapped two girls from their Florida homes while their parents slept, took them to a construction site and raped them before sending them home, threatening to kill their families if they said anything, authorities said.

SPURRED by the kidnapping and murder of a nine-year-old girl, Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed legislation yesterday that will see child molesters who do not get life in jail wear satellite tracking devices for the rest of their lives.