Prosecutor says abducted girl was injected with cocaine

Tests administered after a 6-year-old girl was abducted by a neighbor “clearly show the child had cocaine in her system almost immediately after the attack,’’ Sharon Donatelle, an assistant Plymouth district attorney, said at a hearing yesterday in Hingham District Court to determine if Justin Shine, 26, would pose a danger to the community if released.

Judge Ronald Moynahan said the case was one of the worst he had seen in his quarter-century career.

“I hate to say it, but it’s the truth,’’ said Moynahan as he ordered Shine held without bail until a detention hearing July 28. “This case is as bad as they come, and this man is as dangerous as they come.’’

Donatelle said the only reason Shine did not rape the young girl was because of the immediate response by Hanover police officers to the Hanover Woods apartment complex. She said her office is considering filing further charges against Shine, such as drugging a person during a kidnapping or drugging a person for the purpose of sexual intercourse, both felonies.

According to court documents, Shine slashed his wrists with a knife before he let the girl go.

“His attempt to commit suicide shows that he is certainly mentally unbalanced,’’ Donatelle said.

Shine’s court-appointed lawyer, William Leonard, agreed that his client suffered from mental illness, bipolar disorder, and drug addiction. But he said Shine had already decided to let the girl go when police arrived and was looking for the key to the shackles he placed on her ankles. Unable to open the lock, Leonard said, Shine let the girl out a back door, her legs still in chains.

“It was very consistent with someone who comes to his senses and just says, ‘What am I doing?’ ’’ Leonard said.

He said Shine has no criminal record and asked the judge to release his client on $5,000 bail. At Shine’s arraignment Monday, the court entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf.

In court yesterday, Shine - who still had a black eye from his struggle with police when he was arrested Saturday - sat silently, his head between his knees for most of the proceeding.

Leonard called the alleged attack “a one-time aberration’’ and said that, if released, Shine would pose no further threat to the community.

Moynahan agreed with prosecutors and refused to release Shine under any conditions.

“I think this man reaps terror on 6-year-old little girls,’’ said Moynahan. “I have heard enough here to find that Mr. Shine being released would cause a terror to the Commonwealth. I have no hesitance holding him without bail.’’