Oct 03, 2024
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Police have arrested two men accused of sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls in North Kingstown over the weekend. Officers rushed to a parking lot off Marine Road early Saturday morning after a young girl called and claimed she and her friend were assaulted near the bike path. Investigators believe the girls were at a home in Coventry when one of the men contacted them via a public Snapchat account. Through the Snapchat account, police said the men arranged to pick the girls up at a nearby park and drive them to North Kingstown. Police said the victims told officers the two men sexually assaulted them both inside the vehicle and outside in the parking lot. The suspects abandoned the car and left the girls alone in the parking lot after the reported assaults. The girls indicated that the men had set up a tent at a nearby beach, according to police. Both suspects were eventually found at the beach, along with a 12-year-old boy who appeared intoxicated. Detectives learned the men had supplied the boy, who was known to both of them, with marijuana and alcohol. The men, identified by police as 19-year-olds Dustin Buckley of Enfield, Connecticut, and Austin Sumner of Turners Falls, Massachusetts were taken into custody and are facing numerous charges, including several counts of first-degree child molestation sexual assault. Both are being held without bail. Austin Sumner and Dustin Buckley (Courtesy: North Kingstown Police Department) Local News Headlines AG sees $10 Mil in relief in “zombie mortgage” settlement City of Westfield cancels leaf pickup due to cost increase Springfield officials provide update on surge of school hoax threats Live: How you can help after Helene WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com.
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