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Police search for suspect after girl sexually assaulted in her Mississauga home

Peel Regional Police badge. Francis Vachon / File / The Canadian Press

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Police are looking for a suspect after they say a young girl was sexually assaulted in her home west of Toronto.

Peel Regional Police said the girl awoke Saturday around 7 a.m. to find a man in her bedroom in Mississauga, Ont.

Investigators said the man, described only as a roughly 20-year-old white male, sexually assaulted the girl and then fled.

Const. Bancroft Wright said the girl, who he described as younger than a teenager, was taken to hospital for assessment.

He did not have word on her condition.

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Police have set up a mobile command post in the area and are urging anyone with possible information about the incident to contact them.

Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at the Special Victim’s Unit at  (905) 453–2121, ext. 3460 or by calling Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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