A man was convicted and sentenced to at least 15 years behind bars after being found guilty of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl he picked up off the street in North Philly in Feb. 2025, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office announced on Monday.

According to prosecutors, 47-year-old Horace Battle, who was already a registered sex offender after getting convicted in 2013 for the rape of a child, pulled up along two 11-year-old sisters in North Philly and offered them a ride.

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The sisters initially declined, but Battle insisted, prosecutors said. They then got into Battle's white Chevy Equinox and he drove them to his home on 1635 W. Lehigh Avenue.

Battle asked if they wanted to use the restr

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