Missing 13-year-old girl found stuffed in a box in man’s basement after meeting him on Snapchat

Inset: Ki-Shawn Crumity (Allegheny County Jail). Background: The Pennsylvania home where Ki-Shawn Crumity was allegedly keeping a missing teen from Louisiana inside a box in his basement (WWL). A Pennsylvania man met a Louisiana teen on Snapchat and convinced her to travel to his home — more than 1,000 miles away — under the guise of helping her get adopted by a “trusted adult,” cops say. He then kept the 13-year-old in his basement, stuffed inside a box covered with a sheet, where he sexually assaulted her repeatedly for days, according to police. “She was groomed, exploited, and then sexually abused by strangers who found her online,” Louisiana’s attorney general, Liz Murrill, said in a statement on Facebook about Ki-Shawn Crumity’s alleged victim. Crumity, 26, is charged with trafficking in individuals, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, and selling or furnishing alcohol, according to police. He is one of three suspects who are accused of helping facilitate the alleged trafficking. Love true crime? Sign up for our newsletter, The Law&Crime Docket, to get the latest real-life crime stories delivered right to your inbox. Police say the victim first traveled from Louisiana to Georgia and then to Washington, D.C., before arriving
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