Taranaki Police are seeking help from the public after a young woman was sexually assaulted by a hitchhiker last Sunday morning
Taranaki Police are seeking help from the public after a young woman was sexually assaulted by a hitchhiker last Sunday morning
14 January 2022
She was driving her silver Nissan Tiida, when she picked up the man on South Road on the outskirts of Hawera.
The man then forced her to pullover on State Highway Three just north of Patea ... and sexually assaulted her in her car.
Police want to speak to anyone who may have seen the woman's car or a man hitch-hiking in the area on Sunday between 6:45 and eight am.
They say the matter isn't connected to an elderly woman who was sexually assaulted in her New Plymouth home shortly before Christmas by a man who had earlier helped change her tyre.
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