Girl, 11, abducted and sexually assaulted in Newcastle

Police are urging Newcastle parents to walk their children to school after an 11-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted during a five-hour ordeal.

The girl was walking through Hudson Park in the suburb of Adamstown Heights on her way to school just after 9.15am yesterday, when she was threatened with a knife by a man who sexually assaulted her, police said.

She was then forced into a red car, believed to be a Commodore sedan, and driven to bushland where she was sexually assaulted for several hours before being released at Kotara Railway Station just before 2.15pm - about 1.5 kilometers from where she was abducted.

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