Brooklyn taxi driver accused of raping 12-year-old passenger

A 12-year-old girl from New York was returning home from her grandmother. She claims that the taxi driver raped her and then dropped her off near the house. The details were shared by the edition Daily News.

A 12-year-old girl was visiting her grandmother, who lives between Myrtle Avenue and Carlton Avenue in New York. She planned to pick up the new bike there at around 18:00 pm on August 10, police said.

The girl's mother called the taxi service. When the driver, Rafael Martinez, 32, arrived, he parked his car and sat in the back seat, where he allegedly raped a young passenger.

Then he dropped the girl off near her house, near Ralph Avenue and Fulton Street.

That evening, she went with her parents to Woodhull Hospital. The police arrived there to investigate.

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The very next day, August 11, police arrested the alleged offender.

According to sources, GPS recorded where he stopped to allegedly rape her. “We have enough evidence to confirm her story. There is both physical and electronic evidence, ”a police source said. - Do you know what surprised me the most? He knew we were coming and waited. He stayed instead of boarding the next plane. "

Martinez said nothing to the crowd of reporters as he was escorted out of the New York City Police Department in Brooklyn.

He is charged with rape, criminal intercourse, sexual assault, child welfare and assault.

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