Missing 13-Year-Old Louisiana Girl Found in Pittsburgh Basement Box

(KHLA - Lake Charles, Louisiana) - A 13-year-old girl from Baker, Louisiana was found in a box in a Pittsburg basement during a raid from a regional fugitive task force.

Three individuals have been arrested for the kidnapping and alleged sexual abuse of the Louisiana girl who was tracked down to Pennsylvania. Louisiana's attorney general says strangers who discovered the kid online groomed, exploited, and abused her.

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FOX 8 is reporting the teen was last seen by witnesses at a bus terminal in Baton Rouge 15 days ago. According to investigators, the girl was taken by Alvin Hanson, a 64-year-old man who was detained in New Orleans.

The girl was bused to Columbus, Georgia, and then to a house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where 26-year-old Ki-Shawn Crumity was arrested for trafficking, sexual assault, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, and sexual assault after allegedly being drugged, according to investigators who traced the girl's Snapchat account.

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Authorities say the teen is now in custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Child and Family Services.

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