Police say Marcise Turner, 22, of Kensington has been formally charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful restraint, luring a child, sexual assault and related charges.
Turner was brought in for questioning Thursday night, shortly after news of the alleged assault and a surveillance picture of a man wanted for questioning, were broadcast on local news outlets, including Action News at 6:00 p.m.
The alleged assault happened earlier in the day Thursday.
Police say the 6-year-old victim told her mother that she was at a store near East Tioga and "E" Streets in Kensington when a man approached her and used her older sister and brother's name to lure her. The girl said the man then abducted her and took her to a house where he assaulted her. The child then got away.
After the girl told her mother, police took the girl and her mother to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. The child received a forensic examination and an interview about what had happened.
Police later drove the girl around to locate the house she says she was taken to. She led them to a home in the 600 block of East Thayer.
Police served a search warrant at the place looking for evidence.
Meantime, authorities also released a surveillance picture of the man wanted for questioning in the abduction and sexual assault of the little girl.
The photo was taken by a camera inside the store where the little girl says the man abducted her. police now tell Action News that the man in that photo has been positively identified as Marcise Turner.
Witness Luis Rivera says he had just spoken with Turner, whom he didn't know by name, about going out to find scrap metal to sell.
Rivera says he later saw the man now identified as Turner exiting the store with a girl about the age of the victim.
"I seen the back of the girl. He was just rushing with her down the street. When I called him, he just looked back and said, 'I'll be back,' and he kept going, walking down the street with the girl," Rivera said.
Police were later able to track down Turner and brought him in for questioning.
Anyone with additional information about this crime or the suspect should contact Special Victims at 215-685-3251, or dial 9-1-1.
