Toms River sex offender charged with kidnapping and raping teenager

Keith Hahn, 46, of Toms River, was charged Tuesday with aggravated sexual battery, sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, kidnapping, enticement and endangering the welfare of a child, Billhimer said in a statement Wednesday.

The incident occurred on Sunday. The teenager was traveling on Route 70 in Manchester when she got lost. A man in a white Jeep Grand Cherokee stopped and spoke to the victim, the statement said.

She then asked the man to take her to the animal shelter in Toms River. Instead, the man drove her to an unidentified area in Toms River and sexually assaulted her. He then drove the teenager to the Walmart in Toms River, where she got out of the Grand Cherokee and ran home, according to prosecutors.