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WASHINGTON PARK, Ill. (AP) -- A teen girl reported missing more than two years ago tells police she escaped a home in southwestern Illinois where she had been held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted.
Authorities in Washington Park, a village next to East St. Louis, raided the house Thursday and took into custody a 24-year-old man and his mother. They also recovered the teen's young child, which the girl said was the result of rape by her captor.
Police say they believe the man's mother aided the crimes. Police would not identify either of them by name because they had not been charged as of early Friday.
Police in St. Louis, Mo., had listed the girl as a missing or runaway juvenile in April 2010. She was 15 when she disappeared.
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