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Monday, October 8, 2007

Report: Third kidnapping victim comes forward

A third woman now says a man posing as a taxi driver abducted her in northeast Georgia. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports the University of Georgia student says she was taken by a man in a white van who offered to take her home. The incident reportedly happened in May. Two other women have come forward claiming a man in a white van abducted them in September at a UGA football game. One of the women says the man sexually assaulted her. Athens-Clarke County police say they have made no arrests.

Female students at the University of Georgia are signing up for self-defense classes in droves. The executive director of Safe Campuses Now says one self-defense class filled up in four hours last week after an e-mail went out to students. Athens-Clarke County police are asking taxi drivers in downtown Athens to keep an eye out for a man driving a white unmarked van.

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