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A 6-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Kensington, police said, and officials in the Special Victims Unit were investigating the incident Thursday evening.
The assault was reported around 2:45 p.m., police said. Around 10:30 p.m., police in the Special Victims Unit were questioning a person of interest, but said no arrests were made.
Officials in the Special Victims Unit were unsure if the girl knew the man who assaulted her. The girl was approached by a man depicted in surveillance images released by police at a corner store on E and Tioga streets, police said.
Neighbors said she had walked alone from her home on nearby Rorer Street to the store.
Police describe the suspect as a black man in his early 20s who is about 6 feet tall and has a tattoo of a star beneath one or both of his eyes. He was wearing a brown Carhartt jacket, a white T-shirt and blue jeans. Police released a surveillance still of a man wanted for questioning in connection with the sexual assault just after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Tipsters are asked to call the Special Victims Unit at 215-685-3251 or 215-686-TIPS.
Philly never fails to show me just how low it's citizens can go.— RufusG- Yawn, dumb comment. Philly actually has a lower percentage of sex offenders than many towns do. — JonKap
- Yawn, dumb comment. Philly actually has a lower percentage of sex offenders than many towns do. — JonKap
- where was her mother or parent for allowing her to go out alone ,,she shouldn t even be going places alone ,,the parent should be arrested— hardball
- where was her mother or parent for allowing her to go out alone ,,she shouldn t even be going places alone ,,the parent should be arrested— hardball
- RufusG I don't undertstand your comment. I do not live in Philadelphia but crime occurs everywhere. @hardball I am truly sorry for what happened to this little angel she did not deserve to be assaulted. No one does. I think it is however true what you have written and so tragic. I would not leave my kids play outside by themselves and I live in the suburbs. As I wrote, crime happens in every city and state.— Bob H
- First the family gets street justice. Then hang him. Then firing squad. Then guillotine. Then the needle. Then he gets his 22 months, time already served. Oh, what? The only thing we can find to put in prison is his ratty hoody? Oh well, lock it up then.— journalismIsDead
Comment removed.- Bragging about low sex offender rate in Philly? Really. The highest murder rate in the US is right here. We need cameras on all street corners and all private business owners should do the same. Philly is like the wild west. Too bad Nutter and Co don't do more than talk.— TR3
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- @Bob H - How many rapes does your town have? Philly has 70 or more. How many murders does your town have we have atleast 40. Save your crime happpens everywhere, the majority of violent crime is concentrated in certain areas. If you live in the suburbs then you have no idea about violent crime.— Black Label Society
- Black Label Society, thank you for agreeing with me but it was not necessary. You are correct, crime occurs everywhere. You are a very angry person that is not part of the solution but the problem. I am so glad the Inquirer is using registration now to have people log in before they post. Don't you agree BLS? — Bob H
- What kind of "mother" would send a 6yr child to a corner store alone. This "mother" should have charges brought on her for endangering a child and child neglect.
— redz812
Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.
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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.
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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.
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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.
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