CLEVELAND — On Thursday, a 9-year-old boy appeared in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court to be arraigned for his role in the .

He’s one of two young children facing nine felony counts for allegedly luring the girl into a field in mid-September, and then raping, attacking, and leaving her there for hours.

The older of the two suspects, a 10-year-old girl, was arraigned last Wednesday and was placed on home detention.

Thursday morning, the 9-year-old entered the juvenile courtroom with two family members.

During the arraignment, prosecutor Oscar Albores asked a judge to similarly order the boy to home detention with electronic monitoring.

“Again, this case resulted in a 5-year-old being left naked, beaten, urinated upon in a field and left for hours. The evidence demonstrated to this, t

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