Hunt for child sex attacker

A NEWCASTLE community is being urged to stay “vigilant” as the hunt continues for a man who abducted and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl in a “horrendous” five-hour ordeal this week.

Police are throwing every resource at the hunt for a man who grabbed the girl from behind as she walked to school on Tuesday morning through Hudson Park in the suburb of Adamstown Heights.

She was then threatened with a knife, sexually assaulted and forced into a car and driven to bushland where she was again sexually assaulted.