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For the second day in a row, an army of workers descended on the abandoned Ada Lewis Middle School in East Germantown on Tuesday to clear shrubs and debris after the body of Kada Scott was found in a wooded area behind the building over the weekend.

Some residents of the area and at least one Philadelphia City Council person say the clean up should have happened far sooner, since the school has been abandoned since 2008.

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“This school is sitting here and it looks so nasty, so disgusting," said Maria Laws, who lives near the building.

There are also renewed calls to demolish the former school. Philadelphia City Councilwoman Cindy Bass wrote a letter Friday, Oct. 17, to the Philade

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