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TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. – Police in Temple Terrace<\/a> are investigating after a missing<\/a> teenager said she was abducted and sexually assaulted by a man on Monday evening.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Police responded to a report of a missing 13-year-old around 6 p.m. at the Doral Oaks Apartments.<\/p>\n Shortly after 9:20 p.m., while officers were still on the scene, the teenager arrived back home and said that a man she met earlier that evening forced her into a vehicle, took her to an unknown location and sexually assaulted her before dropping her off near Doral Oaks.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Police said the teenager was with several other juveniles at the apartment complex when they were approached by an unidentified man in a grey or silver Nissan Altima.<\/p>\n READ: Toddler, missing teen saved in Hillsborough undercover human trafficking sting ending with 89 arrests: HCSO<\/a><\/p>\n The teens said the man asked if any of them would be willing to buy him food from Burger King if he gave them money.<\/p>\n Most of the group said no, but the 13-year-old said yes and was seen on security footage at the Burger King located at 8755 N 56th Street.<\/p>\n According to TTPD, when the teen went back to the apartment complex, she met with the man and gave him the food from Burger King.<\/p>\n The teen told investigators that the man forced her into a vehicle and took off.<\/p>\n Officers who went to the scene around 6 p.m. searched for the missing teen but did not find her.<\/p>\n READ: Man convicted of 1991 fatal shooting of police officer is set to be executed in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The teen described the man as a slender white man with blonde or sandy-colored hair and a reddish beard. She said he told her his name was Brian or Ryan and claimed to be 19 years old.<\/p>\n She also told deputies that his vehicle was a gray four-door sedan.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Investigators are working to identify a suspect.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n They are also asking parents to talk with their children about not interacting with people they don\u2019t know and to report any suspicious activity immediately.<\/p>\n Anyone with additional information regarding this case is asked to contact the Temple Terrace Police Department at (813) 989-7110.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with a press release from the Temple Terrace Police Department.<\/p>\n Temple Terrace<\/a>Missing Persons<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Temple Terrace Police Department TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. – Police in Temple Terrace are investigating after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,6888,115,135,137,136,8609,628],"class_list":["post-176739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-temple-terrace","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}