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by Rodrigo Torrejón Published June 5, 2025, 2:06 p.m. ET

A West Philadelphia teen who police say abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl who was sleeping in the backseat of a car he stole in Hunting Park was arrested Thursday and will be charged with rape and related crimes, police said.

The 17-year-old, whom police did not identify, attacked the child after stealing a 2010 Ford Taurus her mother left with the engine running while she went into Max’s Steaks at Germantown and Erie Avenues just after 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Around 20 minutes later, police found the girl about a half mile away at Broad Street and Roosevelt Boulevard, after she called for help from an iPad and told police she had bee

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