Jun 28, 2009 2:46 pm US/Eastern
Police Investigate Alleged Hanover Child-Rape Try
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A investigator removes evidence from the Hanover apartment of Justin Shine, accused of kidnapping and attempting to rape a 6-year-old neighbor.
WBZ
Police on Sunday continued their investigation at an apartment where they say a man held a 6-year-old girl against her will and tried to rape her before she escaped.
Investigators appeared to carry bags of evidence from the apartment of Justin Shine, 26, at the Hanover Woods apartments. He and the girl were neighbors there.
Shine was charged Saturday with kidnapping, attempted rape, assault and battery and resisting arrest. He will be arraigned Monday in Hingham District Court, authorities said.
Shine was arrested after police came upon the girl, outdoors, as they searched door-to-door after her mother reported her missing. They said she had been in the apartment about an hour.
"She was shackled at both ankles," police Chief Walter Sweeney said. "She was shackled with an official piece of equipment that you may have seen prisoners going in and out of courthouse in."
The girl pointed out Shine's apartment, where he was arrested after a brief struggle. He was hospitalized with what police said were self-inflicted wounds.
No word on Shine's condition was available Sunday.
Inside the apartment, police said they found evidence that Shine had tried to rape the girl.
"There's no doubt in my mind that their initiation of a door-to-door search of that apartment complex probably save this girl's life and prevented her from further injury," Sweeney said.
Shocked neighbors said Shine has a girlfriend with a child of her own who often played with the victim.
"My daughter was at that house over there," neighbor Jacqueline Rosado said. "And it goes through your mind -- you wonder if that ever happened to them over there."
Another mother said her daughter had played with both girls.
"We're such a close community," she said. "All three of them are friends. It could just as easily have been my daughter."
"It's probably a real traumatic thing for her to go through," Rosado added. "The poor thing's never going to be the same."
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