Woman who kidnapped and sexually assaulted 5 year old girl is jailed

A 22 year old woman Christina Regusters, who dressed up in traditional Muslim attire to pose as the mother of a five-year-old girl so she could take the child from school and sexually assault her has been jailed. Christina was convicted in September last year of aggravated assault, kidnapping, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other offenses related to the crime.

The former childcare worker was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison at a hearing on Monday, 5th Oct. 2015.

"It's the appropriate sentence," said Erin O'Brien, an assistant Philadelphia district attorney. "It guarantees that the defendant won't be able to do this to anyone else."

O'Brien said the victim spoke at Monday's sentencing stating what the little girl said.

"She said that it's wrong what the defendant did to her and she didn't want her to do it to anyone else," O'Brien said.

In the January 2013 incident, Regusters posed as the girl's mother, who wore a traditional Muslim head scarf, before signing her out of school early.
Regusters sexually assaulted the girl while she held her overnight, according to trial testimony. The victim was found in a playground early the next morning wearing a T-shirt on which police later found Regusters' DNA.
The woman's lawyer, W. Frederick Harrison Jr., argued during the trial that his client had rescued the child from an unnamed man in Regusters' home, and that was how her DNA came to be found on the T-shirt.
The girl's family has sued the city's school district, alleging it was negligent for failing to ask for identification at the school before releasing their child to a stranger.


UK Mirror