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Carnal knowledge of 14-year-old reported in Punta Gorda

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A teenage girl of Punta Gorda has told police that she was molested by an older man.

Yesterday, May 7, the girl, 14, and her grandmother went to police and told them that at about 4:30 on Holy Saturday, April 19, she was in Punta Gorda when a man, 27, who is known to her, took her to his house and had sex with her.

Police took her to the Punta Gorda Hospital where a doctor certified that she has been carnally known.

Police are looking for the sexual offender.

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