Horrifying new details are being released in the case of the 6-year-old Hanover girl who was allegedly abducted by a neighbor and assaulted Saturday afternoon.Justin Shine, 26, was arraigned this morning in Hingham District Court for the attack, charged with kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, attempted rape and resisting arrest. He is being held without bail until a dangerousness hearing Wednesday.
According to prosecutor Sharon Donatelle, Shine lured his son’s friend to his Hanover Woods apartment with a promise of seeing hamsters. But once inside, Donatelle said, he shackled the girl’s ankles and legs with chains, wrapped tape across her mouth and hands and used a syringe to inject her with an unknown substance.
Shine later told police he had been injecting himself with cocaine and planned to engage in sexual activity with the child but at some point had “second thoughts.” He allegedly cut the tape off her hands and set her free after the girl heard knocking on nearby doors.
“She was crying. At one point he told her to shut up,” Donatelle said in court. “He told her she wasn’t going to die today but he was.”
The child later told police she “felt sleepy” after being stuck with the needle.According to a police report, police found the child shortly after responding to a mother’s call for help for a missing child. The mother said she had let her daughter ride her pink bike outside while she put her younger child down for a nap. But when she looked for her just 20 minutes later, she was missing.
Police heard frantic screaming shortly after responding. They then saw a neighbor who had been helping them search carrying the girl under his arm, according to the report. The girl’s feet were shackled, her hands and feet were bleeding and she was crying.When police asked the girl what happened, she said another man had taken her, according to the report.
She pointed out the apartment, known to the girl as the home of one of her friend’s fathers, and police forced their way inside.
Once inside, the report says, police found a blood trail through the apartment and noticed a pink bicycle, covered with a sleeping bag in the living room, and Barbie helmet in the kitchen.
Police said they also found bondage material, including ropes and chains, as well as syringes in the apartment. They followed a blood trail to the master bedroom where they found the suspect, later identified as Shine, covered in blood. He struggled with police before he was arrested.
Police say his wounds were self-inflicted.
A not guilty plea was entered on Shine’s behalf in court.
District Attorney Timothy Cruz said the child’s physical condition is OK, but she was obviously traumatized.
“What a traumatic thing for a 6-year-old child to go through,” Cruz said after the court proceeding. “I’m sure it will be a long road ahead for her.”
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