Girl tells court of rape ordeal as nine-year-old

A GIRL who was kidnapped and repeatedly raped as a nine-year-old gave evidence for two hours in California yesterday, describing the ordeal in harrowing detail.

Dressed in pink tennis shoes, a pink T-shirt and shimmery black skirt, the girl, now 11, calmly recounted how she was raped, bound, handcuffed and thrown in a box in a car after coming home from school in June 2003.

“I could hear my mom yelling, ‘Where’s my daughter?’ I yelled, ‘Mom, I’m in the garage, help me!’” she told a San Jose court.