A 10-year-old girl was raped in her Aberdeen home yesterday after letting in a stranger who knocked on the door of her family's apartment asking to use the bathroom.
Detectives were questioning a suspect last night and investigating whether the attack is linked to five unsolved sex attacks on girls aged 10 to 14 in Western in 1999.
The Primary Four student was attacked after she returned to her home in Wah Ming House, Wah Fu Estate, at 1pm. She rang her father, a taxi driver, to tell him she was home.
Assistant Western District commander (crime) Superintendent Sheung Chi-keung said: 'Minutes later, a man banged on the door and asked her whether he could use her toilet. The girl, who is kind-hearted, let him in.
'The man came out of the toilet and went to her bedroom where she was raped. The sex attacker fled out of the unit and no property was stolen.'
Initial investigations showed the rapist stayed in the apartment for less than 10 minutes and no weapon was produced or used.