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A former day care worker in Philadelphia was convicted Friday of abducting a 5-year-old girl from her school classroom and sexually assaulting her during a 19-hour ordeal.
Christina Regusters, 21, donned a Muslim dress and veil to impersonate the girl's mother and take her from Bryant Elementary School in January 2013, then posed as three different people to trick the blindfolded child.
The girl was found half-naked the next morning at a cold, dark playground.
The defense had questioned during the three-week trial whether Regusters could have acted alone.
But prosecutors said [Regusters] had viewed child pornography and Japanese anime involving child sexual torture and also looked up how to destroy DNA evidence.
'All the evidence pointed to the existence of one abductor and assailant — Regusters,' prosecutor Erin O'Brien said.
Regusters, who is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 15, was convicted of all counts, including kidnapping, aggravated assault and indecent deviate sexual intercourse.
The now-7-year-old girl suffered devastating injuries and needed a colostomy, but she has recovered physically and is now in second grade. She testified briefly during the trial.
Regusters had moved in with an aunt in Philadelphia after her father went to prison in Maryland for assaulting her and a sister.
She had worked at a day-care program the girl attended after school, but had been suspended and was home the day of the abduction.
School officials did not realize the girl was missing for six hours, until dismissal time.
The victim's family is suing the Philadelphia School District.(Source)
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