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    'Help me!': Scrawled sign helps save 13-year-old kidnapping victim in Southern California

    by Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Jul 21, 2023 2 minutes
    A caller alerted Long Beach, California, police earlier this month that a young girl was sitting in a car parked in front of a laundromat holding up a torn piece of paper with the words“ help me” scrawled on it.

    LOS ANGELES — The 13-year-old girl had been kidnapped at gunpoint, taken by car across several states and was sexually assaulted by a man nearly half a century older than she was — but it took just two words written on a piece of paper

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