A 14-year-old girl claims that the taxi driver who took her from her grandmother's house in North Philadelphia to her parents' house in Juniata Park on Tuesday night made an unthinkable detour when he parked on a dark street and sexually assaulted her, police said.
The girl told police that she called for a cab about 9:50 p.m. to pick her up at her grandmother's house on Sydenham Street near Venango, said Special Victims Unit Lt. Anthony McFadden.
While en route to Juniata Park, she claims, the cabbie pulled over in Northeast Philadelphia and assaulted her, police said. Authorities declined to detail the exact nature of the alleged sexual assault.
