Renell Sanker - the man accused of breaking into a 13 year old girl's bedroom, trying to rape her, and then stabbing her in the face is sitting in jail tonight.
38 year old Sanker was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and wounding in connection with the incident which occurred early Thursday morning in the girl's Lake Independence home. The girl told 7NEWS her story saying that she was asleep when a man entered her bedroom through a window, placed a knife to her throat and tried to rape. She fought him off but he stabbed her to the right side of her neck before running off with an Aiwa brand stereo.
Today in court Sanker was denied bail after the prosecutor objected and presiding Magistrate Herbert Lord agreed. Sanker will sit in that jail cell until his next court appearance on April 29th 2004.