Bus driver abducts 7-year-old girl: After twelve years of abuse, she goes free!

Medellín (Colombia) - A particularly cruel case of child abuse has occurred in Colombia.

The bus driver was arrested and is now in custody.
The bus driver was arrested and is now in custody.  © Fiscalía General de la Nación

At the age of seven, the little girl was allegedly abducted by a bus driver in 2012, locked up and then raped for twelve years, as the Colombian public prosecutor's office announced on Thursday.

The accused is said to have then psychologically manipulated his victim and instilled in her that the sexual assaults were part of normality.

She had not gone to school for the entire time. The child abuser also had her name changed.

The bus driver also made videos of the abuse.

The girl, now 19 years old, was only able to escape her horror in February of this year: He managed to escape from one of the houses in which she had been locked away from the outside world.

The perpetrator has been in custody since then and denies all charges. He now has to stand trialfor kidnapping, child abuse and child pornography .