NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Authorities arrested three people, including a 64-year-old man being held in a New Orleans jail, for the abduction and alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old Louisiana girl who was tracked down to Pennsylvania. Louisiana’s attorney general says the girl was groomed, exploited and abused by strangers who found her online.

Task force members found the 13-year-old girl from Baker in a box in a Pittsburgh basement after a member of a regional fugitive task force moved in with flash bombs Thursday night.

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Witnesses last saw the girl at a Baton Rouge bus station 12 days ago, where authorities say she had been taken by a man named 64-year-old Alvin Hanson, who was arrested in New Orleans.

“Mr. Hanson may ha

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