An 11-year-old boy has been abducted and sexually assaulted in an horrific four-hour ordeal in West Auckland. Photo: ODT filesWaitemata Police say the boy got off a train at Ranui Station around 3.55pm on Thursday and starting walking to his home along Ranui Station Rd when he was abducted by a man in a grey van. Police say the man asked the boy for directions before driving him to an unknown location and sexually assaulting him. The man then drove the boy back to Ranui and let him go. ``From CCTV footage at the train station we see that a group of schoolchildren got off the train at Ranui before the abduction took place.''

Source: Otago Daily Times November 17, 2016 23:30 UTC