Friday afternoon, police responded to a report of a child wandering alone near a strip mall in Stone Mountain, said DeKalb County police spokesman Maj. Stephen Fore. Officers brought the child to a hospital for an evaluation, where health officials discovered she had been sexually assaulted, Fore said. Story highlights 5-year-old girl is found wandering near a strip mall in Stone Mountain, GeorgiaPolice say she was taken from her home, assaulted and dropped off(CNN) Police in Georgia were searching Saturday for a man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl before leaving her in a parking lot on a busy road. It was the victim's 8-year-old brother who reported his sister had been kidnapped, police said. The girl told police a stranger had taken her from her home at a nearby apartment complex and then left her in parking lot of the mall.

Source: CNN July 23, 2016 17:26 UTC