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ABRAMS: Joining me now is Art Wood, a private investigator who‘s working with Aruba‘s “Diario” newspaper. Art actually spoke to the young woman‘s attorney and “Diario” ran the story this morning. Thanks very much for coming on the program. We appreciate it. Tell me what it is that the attorney said to you.

ART WOOD, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: Good evening, Dan. First of all, I met with the attorney yesterday. The attorney advised me that this courageous young woman, 17 years old, is ready to come forward. She‘s ready and willing to make allegations against Joran van der Sloot. She said that she was raped and given drugs by Joran and that she knows of two other young girls, classmates, or friends of hers who had the same experience.

ABRAMS: Now, is she going to go forward in a civil lawsuit or is she going to go to the authorities and say it‘s time to file criminal charges?

WOOD: Dan, listen, she‘s already been to authorities here. She just hasn‘t been to the police or the prosecutor yet. The child advocate from Aruba has taken a statement from her and she is going to the police and hopefully, the prosecutor will bring charges against Joran.

ABRAMS: So again, the authorities you‘re talking about is this child advocate?

WOOD: That‘s right. That‘s part of the Aruban authorities and also it‘s very important that other young women, if they‘ve had any experience with Joran van der Sloot or any of these other people—other suspects here, and if they have been raped or given drugs by these people, please come forward.

ABRAMS: Let me ask you Art. I mean do you find it a little bit troublesome that the person‘s only coming forward now? Meaning, I can understand why they wouldn‘t want to come forward before. This is a very private matter. It always is in these types of cases. But we‘re now talking about months after Natalee went missing, months after Joran van der Sloot was arrested.

WOOD: Well, Dan, listen, I don‘t think it‘s strange at all. You‘ll find in many sexual molestation cases, the victims don‘t come forward for up to years sometimes, especially if they had been given a date rape drug. There‘s a stigma shame that shouldn‘t be attached to rape and the younger the victim, the later they often come forward.

ABRAMS: Now, is she going to—very quickly, is she going to be willing to give her name, et cetera, to the authorities?

WOOD: Well, she‘s a juvenile under the Aruban system and she doesn‘t want to be identified, but of course the authorities will have her name.

ABRAMS: Right. Right. I don‘t mean in the press, et cetera. OK. All right. Art, thanks a lot for coming on the program. Appreciate it.