Two 18-year-old men face a slew of charges after a 15-year-old girl said she was threatened and held against her will in the basement of a North Preston, N.S. home.
Police say the girl was held in a basement for two days before she escaped late Thursday.
Police were called to investigate reports of shots being fired in the neighbourhood just before 9 p.m. on Thursday, said Cpl. Scott McRae.
One of the men was arrested near the home in North Preston on Thursday night, and the second man was arrested at the provincial court in Windsor on Friday morning.
McRae said officers found no evidence of a shooting when they arrived to the scene Thursday, but said they did find a teenaged girl who said she was the victim of sexual assault.
“When officers arrived it was revealed to us that a 15-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted after being held against her will in a basement of a house just right next door, basically, to where we were responding to the shots fired,” he told CTV Atlantic.
Police won’t say if the victim knew the men involved in her alleged confinement, but McRae said he wants to “reassure the public that the 15-year-old is safe.”
Two men are charged with unlawful confinement, sexual assault, trafficking in persons and sexual interference.
In addition to those charges, one of the men is also charged with uttering threats, use of weapon during assault, possession of a weapon dangerous to eth public and breach of probation.
Police say the suspects are from North Preston and are scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court on Monday.
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Alyse Hand and The Canadian Press
