2 Men Facing Charges In Molestation Of 2 North Kingstown Girls

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI — Two men are facing multiple child molestation sexual assault charges in connection with the alleged sexual assault of two 12-year-old girls in North Kingstown overnight Saturday, accoridng to the North Kingstown Police Department.

Police received the 911 call just before 3 a.m. from the parking area on Marine Road near the bike path. The girls said they were taken after one of the men contacted them on Snapchat while they were at a home in Coventry then picked them up from a local park around 1 a.m.

"While in the vehicle and outside in the parking area, one of the females was sexually assaulted by both suspects," according to police.

The girls told police that the two men, 19-year-old Dustin Buckley of Entfield and 19-year-old Austin Sumner of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, had a tent somewhere near the beach.

"State Police and East Greenwich Police responded to assist with forming a perimeter and providing drone and K-9 services," after which both men were located along with a 12-year-old boy they knew and who had apparently been given marijuana and alcohol.

Buckley has been charged with four counts of first-degree child molestation sexual assault, contributing to delinquency of a child under 16, and posession of beverage by person under 21.

Sumber has been charged with two accounts of first-degree child molestation sexual assault, indecent solicitation of a child, contributing to deliquency of a child under 16, and posession of beverage by person 18-21.

Both were arraigned Monday in 3rd Division District Court and held without bail.