Girl, 17, who went missing from US beach on Spring Break in 2009 ‘was gang-raped for days, shot and fed to ALLIGATORS’

A TEEN who vanished in South Carolina was repeatedly gang raped for several days then shot dead and fed to alligators, it’s been revealed.

The shocking new details about the mysterious 2009 disappearance Brittanee Drexel came largely from a  new “jailhouse confession”.

The inmate who made the bombshell claims, Taquan Brown, is serving a 25-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter in a different case.

 Brittanee went missing during Spring Break in 2009

Brown told authorities he was present during the final agonising moments of the 17-year-old’s life, FBI Agent Gerrick Munoz testified.

Dawn Drexel, mother of Brittanee, speaks to reporters during a news conference

Brown claimed to have seen Brittanee when he visited a “stash house” — typically a place used to keep guns, drugs or money — in the McClellanville area, the general location where Drexel’s cellphone was last traced.

Munoz said Brown told officials he saw Da’Shaun Taylor, then 16 years old, and several other men “sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel.”

Taquan Brown made the shocking jailhouse revelations

Brown then said he walked to the backyard of the house to give money to Taylor’s father, Shaun Taylor. But as Brown and Shaun Taylor talked, Brittanee tried to make a break for it.

Her escape attempt was in vain, however, and one of the captors “pistol-whipped” Drexel and carried her back inside the house. Brown said he then heard two gunshots.

The next time Brown said he saw the New York state resident, her body was being wrapped up and removed from the house, reports Fox News.

FBI agents have now implicated Timothy Da’Shaun Taylor (pictured)

Brittanee’s body has never been found, but Munoz said “several witnesses” have told investigators she was dumped in an unspecified McClellanville pond teeming with alligators.

Brittanee was last captured on video on April 25, 2009, leaving the Blue Water Hotel in Myrtle Beach, where she was staying against her parents’ permission.

A different inmate serving time at Georgetown County Jail told officials he was informed Da’Shaun Taylor picked Brittanee up in Myrtle Beach and transported her to McClellanville.

Munoz said the FBI believes Taylor “showed her off, introduced her to some other friend that were there … they ended up tricking her out with some of their friends, offering her to them and getting a human trafficking situation.”

A reward of $25,000 was offered for info leading to an arrest

As the media spotlight grew ever brighter on the desperate efforts to find Drexel, the girl was “murdered and disposed of,” Munoz said.

Munoz’s testimony was part of a bond hearing for a federal charge against Da’Shaun Taylor, now 25, stemming from a 2011 robbery of a McDonald’s.

Taylor had previously confessed to being the getaway driver for the holdup, co-operated with South Carolina authorities and completed probation.

But prosecutors are now trying to bring federal charges and, if convicted of the new charges, Taylor could face a life sentence.

Taylor’s lawyer contended the federal charges are a naked attempt to “squeeze” Taylor for information on the Brittanee case.

Asked by Magistrate Judge Mary Gordon Baker about “the real reason” for the charges and if they had to do with Brittanee’s disappearance, Assistant US Attorney Winston Holliday said “that would be one” reason.

Taylor was released after posting $10,000 bail.

The FBI declined to discuss Munoz’s testimony or any aspect of the Drexel case with The Post and Courier.