Two men from Dayton have been charged with child sexual assault offences after they were discovered in a van with a teenaged girl at a Mid West truck stop on Friday.
WA Police will allege the two men were talking with the 13-year-old via social media from Perth after which they allegedly drove several hundred kilometres to a Mid West Gascoyne town to pick up the girl.
It is further alleged the men were on their way back to Perth with the girl when she was sexually assaulted by both men.
Police located the alleged offenders and the girl inside a van parked in a truck stop bay on Brand Highway.
Twenty-three-year-old Dayton man Sheldon Todd Barron appeared in court via video-link on Saturday charged with three counts of indecent dealings with a child and eight counts of sexual penetration of a child in circumstances of aggravation.
Twenty-eight-year-old Dayton man Clinton Parry Harris also appeared in court via video-link charged with three counts of indecent dealings with a child and five counts of sexual penetration of a child.
Barron has been remanded in custody while Harris was granted bail.
Nine News Perth