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Police investigating Pennypack Park rape

Police are looking for a man who allegedly raped a woman in Pennypack Park after offering her a ride home early yesterday.

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Police investigating Pennypack Park rape

POSTED: Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 9:55 PM

Police are looking for a man who allegedly raped a woman in Pennypack Park after offering her a ride home early yesterday.

The man was described as white, between 30 and 40 years old, 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 10, with a medium build, reddish-brown hair and facial hair. He was last seen wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, and was driving a white pickup truck with ladders in the rear when he approached the victim.

Police said he approached the victim, who is in her 20s, while she was walking along Torresdale Avenue near Longshore around 2:30 a.m. He engaged her in conversation, possibly saying that his name was “Rob,” and offered her a ride home, which she accepted, according to police from the Special Victims Unit’s Special Investigations Unit. He then drove her to Cresco Avenue between Rhawn Street and Welsh Road in Pennypack Park, where he dragged her by the arm from the truck, sexually assaulted her and robbed her of $20, police said.

No one witnessed the attack, and the woman did not know the man, police said.

Morgan Zalot @ 9:55 PM  Permalink | 9 comments
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Comments  (9)
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:03 AM, 08/04/2011
    Execute him.
    hodg99
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:51 AM, 08/04/2011
    He will be sent to prison for 5 years if caught at all. Then he will be released to a halfway house after 2 years and deamed cured. Then he will reoffend and hurt how many others? Cut of his jewels, tell his friends. And keep him in prison untill he is very old!
    SPENDSPEND
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:54 AM, 08/04/2011
    Better het if found guilty send him to France to live on Mumia Lane!
    SPENDSPEND
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:04 AM, 08/04/2011
    pro-tip: don't accept any ride from strangers at 230am. Better yet, don't walk outside by yourself at 230am.
    franknbeans
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:56 AM, 08/04/2011
    His DNA is on file.
    Public1
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:35 AM, 08/04/2011
    Usually women who walk Torresdale Avenue at 2:30 a.m. want to get picked up by men in cars....sounds like a trick gone bad
    bearsfriend
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:50 AM, 08/04/2011
    i completely agree:
    Usually women who walk Torresdale Avenue at 2:30 a.m. want to get picked up by men in cars....sounds like a trick gone bad
    — bearsfriend
    sjerzeeee
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:53 AM, 08/04/2011
    yup, that's what it sounds like to me, as well.
    eaglesfillthesky
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:06 AM, 08/04/2011
    She needs license to carry.
    dogman5


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