{"id":49282,"date":"2025-10-31T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49282"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:02:21","slug":"us-marine-accused-of-kidnapping-girl-with-intent-to-sexually-assault-her-fbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49282","title":{"rendered":"US Marine accused of kidnapping girl with intent to sexually assault her, FBI says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">An active-duty U.S. Marine has been arrested on accusations of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from Indiana with the intent of sexually assaulting her, the FBI said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">William Richard Roy, 24, who was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, flew to Chicago last week, met the girl in a park and then took her to a hotel overnight before boarding a bus to Durham, North Carolina, the FBI said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The girl\u2019s grandmother first reported her missing on Friday, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI arrested Roy when he arrived in Durham on Sunday and the girl was \u201csafely recovered,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Roy faces three charges, which entail enticing and transporting a minor across state lines for an illicit sexual act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Public records listed one working number that appeared to be associated with Roy, but the person who picked up declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Marine Corps did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/us-marine-arrested-accused-kidnapping-girl-intent-sexually-127042959\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An active-duty U.S. Marine has been arrested on accusations of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from Indiana with the intent of sexually assaulting her, the FBI said Thursday. William Richard Roy, 24, who was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, flew to Chicago last week, met the girl in a park and then took her to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1875,1297,1773],"class_list":["post-49282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-girl","tag-her","tag-marine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49284,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282\/revisions\/49284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}