Police Investigate Girl’s Report of 5-Hour Abduction, Sexual Assault

A 15-year-old San Diego girl has told La Mesa police that she was taken against her will from the Grossmont Trolley Station and sexually assaulted by three Hispanic men in an incident that lasted more than five hours Monday.

The girl, who is deaf, told police she was on the way to her high school in Clairemont when she was taken by the men wearing dark clothes and driving a dark car at 7:45 a.m. Monday.

La Mesa police Lt. Dan Willis said  “a lot of things we’re trying to verify and understand” about the alleged incident, including why she was in La Mesa when she was on the way to school in San Diego.

The girl told police she was held by the three men until 1 p.m., when the abductors took her back to the Grossmont Trolley Station  at 8601 Fletcher Parkway and released her, said a news release.

Police say they didn’t hear about the incident until more than four hours after it allegedly ended.

 “The juvenile reported she was sexually assaulted in the suspects’ car during the time she was abducted, in unknown locations,” police said, but the girl had no physical injuries.

She said she saw no weapon, police said.

La Mesa Today, quoting Willis, reported that surveillance cameras at the trolley station  “revealed things that are making us go back to investigate whether a crime occurred.”

Willis was quoted as saying the cameras revealed “inconsistencies” from the original crime report.

The girl said she rode the trolley back to her home near the trolley station at Euclid Avenue and Market Street in the Emerald Hills area of San Diego and later reported the incident to her mother shortly after 5 p.m., police said.

A sex-crimes team visited the girl, drew blood and did a pubic comb as part of its usual evidence-gathering routine, Willis said. The investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the La Mesa Police Department at 619-667-1400 or the Crime Stoppers’ anonymous tip line at 888-580-8477; you can also email or text anonymously at sdcrimestoppers.com.  Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 to anyone with information that leads to a felony arrest.