A sex offender kidnapped a 9-year-old girl as she walked to a bus stop last week, held her at knife-point and kept her tied up in a closet before releasing her unharmed hours later, according to court documents obtained Saturday.
An arrest affidavit said Charles Eugene Butcher, 42, put a knife to the girl's throat shortly after the kidnapping Thursday morning along Brodie Lane in South Austin and told her that he would cut her if she didn't stop screaming.
Police said that Butcher appeared to have randomly selected the girl and that it remained unclear Saturday what prompted her release.
According to public records and published reports, Butcher was convicted in September 1995 in Ohio of abduction and received parole in 2004 with special conditions that he not be around children.
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