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Police: Sexual assaults/abductions not related

A 41-year-old woman who was reported missing by her husband Tuesday night was found bound at the wrists, stabbed, partially-dressed and semi-conscious in her car around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, just blocks from Special Victims Unit headquarters in West Kensington, police said.

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Police: Sexual assaults/abductions not related

POSTED: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 5:43 PM

The woman was located using a low-jack tracking device on her Honda Pilot, after it was reported stolen, SVU Capt. John Darby said. As of yesterday afternoon, police had been unable to interview the victim, who was taken into surgery at Temple University Hospital for the stab wounds she suffered during the attack, Darby said. Police did not immediately know her condition, but said she is expected to survive. They did not know when or where she may have been taken from or to during her ordeal.

Darby said there is no connection between this woman and a 28-year-old woman who was kidnapped from in front of her home in Juniata Park Monday night, held for ransom and sexually assaulted before she was dropped off in Fairmount Park Tuesday. He said the only commonality between the two cases is that they involve single, female victims and that the assaults do not appear to be random. In the most recent case, police are seeking two men, while the suspects in the abduction and rape of the 28-year-old woman are two men and a woman.

“It’s unfortunate that we’ve got two cases in a short period of time both involving women and what appears to be some level of violence,” Darby said, “from there, the similarities are random. We don’t have a serial situation.”

Anyone with information on either case is asked to call SVU at 215-685-3251.

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