A convicted rapist, Ninoslav Jovanovic, suspected of abducting a 12-year-old girl Monika Karimanovic in Southern Serbia was arrested Sunday, in Malca, the Higher Public Prosecutor's office in Nis told Tanjug agency.
Jovanovic will be set 48-hour custody during which he will be brought to the Prosecution for questioning.
Jovanovic abducted Monika Kkarimanovic on December 20, at around 7:30 am, when she was on her way to school. Following a 10-day search, the girl was found in village Pasjaca, but Jovanovic managed to escape.
This was the third time that police were searching for Jovanovic in the past 23 years.
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He raped a woman and a 14-year-old girl in 1996 and was then found in the forest and sentenced to 10 years behind bars.
Upon leaving prison, he raped another 12-year-old girl after holding her captive for two days.
While on the run, he tried to rape another 12-year-old girl, but a local logger saved her.
Jovanovic was then sentenced to 15 years in prison for rape and attempted rape, but his sentence was reduced to 12 years by the Supreme Court.
After he left prison for the second time, he harassed women via social media and was placed in pretrial detention for five months.
Jovanovic was released in January 2019.
