Minor Reports Rape in Belize City, Investigation Ongoing

A minor from Belize City says she was raped over the weekend. The minor, in the presence of her mother, reported to police that she got home around four in the morning on Sunday, April 14 when she was ambushed by a brown skinned man. The man held her up with a knife against a fence near her home, and raped her.  He then ran towards Mex Avenue in the Queen’s Square area.  The minor was taken for a medical examination as part of an ongoing police investigation.