A 15-year-old girl who was found wandering in the North Side Wednesday evening and told police she was abducted and raped admitted today that she made up the story because she was afraid to go home after missing her curfew.
The girl won't be charged with filing the false report, but her family was referred to counseling, police said.
Motorists called police after they found the girl wandering along Route 65 without a coat, "looking distressed" and crying. The girl told detectives with the city police Sex Assault and Family Crisis unit that she was waiting for a bus on Fleming Avenue in Brighton Heights that afternoon when a large white man approached her and began talking, investigators said.
The girl said the man pulled her into his car, drove her to a nearby warehouse and sexually assaulted her, police said. Detectives questioned the girl today and determined she fabricated the story because she was afraid she'd be in trouble with her family for staying out past her curfew.
