Indecent treatment of a child charges, Blackstone

Key points

• A 41-year-old man has been charged after police investigated the alleged assault of a 13-year-old girl in bushland on Thomas Street, Blackstone, on 14 October. Police were called around 11.30pm and found the alleged offender had already fled in a black Toyota Kluger.
• Officers located the man at a Cooneana Street address in Bundamba on 16 October. He faces one count each of indecent treatment of a child under 16 and supplying dangerous drugs to a minor under 16.
• He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on 19 October.