NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A third person was arrested Thursday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a minor, the North Charleston Police Department said.

Christine Wallace, 56, is charged with promoting the prostitution of a minor. North Charleston officers apprehended Wallace outside a Rivers Avenue motel on Thursday afternoon.

An investigation began after North Charleston police responded to N. Atlantic Avenue on Sept. 26, where they found a missing juvenile.

The juvenile told police that she had run away and was sleeping outside near a fast-food restaurant on Rivers Avenue when a woman approached her and offered her shelter at a nearby motel.

When she was brought to the motel, the girl was sexually assaulted by a man while another woman encouraged the assault, the

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