Gardaí try to locate house after teen girl claims to have been raped

GARDAÍ are trying to establish the location of a house where a teenage girl claims to have been held captive and raped.

The girl, from Burundi in Africa and either 15 and 16, was discovered walking the streets of Drogheda in the early hours of one morning last week. She was partially clothed and in a deeply distressed state.

While gardaí believe she was held captive for some days and was raped during that time, it’s unclear from initial interviews whether she was trafficked into the country and sold for sex.