The Charleroi public prosecutor’s office informed us this Tuesday that in the case of the disappearance of the little girl, the night from Sunday to Monday, the suspect, a 41-year-old man, is being prosecuted for kidnapping a minor under 12 years old and harming sexual integrity.
The Charleroi public prosecutor’s office indicated late Monday morning in a press release that the young Maya Charles, 9 years old, missing since Sunday evening in Charleroi, had been found in an abandoned house in the Charleroi region in the company of a homeless person. -fixed address aged 41 years. The latter was deprived of his liberty and questioned.
We learned this Tuesday, January 14 that the public prosecutor’s office has referred the charge of kidnapping of a minor under 12 years of age and assault on sexual integrity to an investigating judge.
At this stage, all the elements necessary to establish the facts precisely are not yet available. The investigation must continue to clarify the exact circumstances of the events of the night of January 12 to 13.
-The Prosecutor’s Office specifies that no definitive conclusion can be drawn at this stage concerning the exact course of events as well as the possible guilt of the suspect in relation to the charges retained by the Prosecutor’s Office. The latter, however, remains deprived of his liberty for the moment and will be presented to the investigating judge later today who will decide whether or not an arrest warrant is issued.
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