Thursday, June 24, 2010
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
Police are investigating the reported rape of a 15-year-old girl.
According to police, the girl and a friend, 15, went swimming Monday at North Side Pool at Belmont and Tod avenues. The two met a man known only as Matthew after leaving.
The girl told police Matthew said he would like to record her singing voice and came to her North Side home about 7 p.m. Tuesday to talk. There was no one else home at the time.
She said the man began touching her inappropriately, and she asked him to leave, but he refused.
The girl told police the man then pinned her to a couch and sexually assaulted her. She said the man told her, “I am sorry if I hurt you. I will be calling you later,” before leaving.
The girl was taken to Forum Health Northside Medical Center. Police collected her clothes as evidence.