15-year-old girl `raped in toilet' Mother tells of devastated daughter's courage.Byline: CARL BUTLER A DISTRAUGHT dis·traught adj. 1. Deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict. 2. Mad; insane. [Middle English, alteration of distract, past participle of distracten, mother last night spoke out just days after her 15-year-old daughter was allegedly raped. Detectives were last night investigating the incident in which the girl was allegedly dragged into a public toilet in Holyhead. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was yesterday interviewed by specialist officers and has undergone distressing medical and forensic Belonging to courts of justice. forensic 1) adj. from Latin forensis for "belonging to the forum," ancient Rome's site for public debate, and currently meaning pertaining to the courts. tests. She will also have to wait for the outcome of an Aids test AIDS test Lab medicine Any test performed on a standard venipuncture blood specimen which detects HIV antibodies–ELISA, or antigens–eg, Western blot, or viral nucleic acid–eg, viral load by RNA. See Western blot. . The alleged attack happened on Tuesday night at Holyhead ferry terminal. Two men were arrested within an hour. One has since been released but the other, in his 20s, was being questioned last night. The girl's mother said: ``She was out walking around with three of her friends when two lads walked up to them and asked where the port was. ``They took them and showed them the port and then one of them asked where the toilets were. '' She said two of the schoolgirls had gone home by that time. ``My daughter showed him where the public toilets were and he dragged her in and raped her. '' The other man remained with the girl's friend and kept her talking. She did not realise anything was wrong until her friend emerged from the toilets a few minutes later ``crying her eyes out''. The incident happened about three quarters of a mile away from the girl's home. When she returned home crying, her father rushed out to find the two men, while her mother rang the police. The mother said her daughter was devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. . Police later arrested two men waiting to board a London-bound train at the port. The girl's mother added: ``The police have been absolutely brilliant. ``My daughter has been one brave girl. It takes a lot of guts to do what she is doing. It is sometimes much easier for a young girl to pretend it did not happen. But she is facing up to it. ``She's prepared to do whatever it takes to go to court. '' |
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