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Woman tells police she was raped by ‘Good Samaritan’

Police are investigating an alleged rape in which a 20-year-old homeless woman said she was sexually assaulted by a man who offered to take her to shelter in West Philadelphia.

Police are investigating an alleged rape in which a 20-year-old homeless woman said she was sexually assaulted by a man who offered to take her to shelter in West Philadelphia.

The alleged attack took place about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday in a vacant lot on the 400 block of North 40th Street.

The woman told investigators her attacker was a black man late in his late 40s to early 50s, about 5-feet, 8-inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds.

Police said the woman told them the man offered to take her to a shelter and while escorting her there, dragged her into the lot and raped her.