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PHOENIX — A Liberian teenager charged as an adult in the alleged gang rape of an 8-year-old girl in Phoenix pleaded not guilty Monday, as details of the boy’s former life in an Ivory Coast refugee camp emerged.
Yarsiah Sirleaf, who is a neighbor of the teen in Phoenix and used to teach him Sunday school, told The Associated Press that the boy lived in the camp for about a decade and went through a daily struggle to eat.
Phoenix police allege the 14-year-old along with three other boys, all Liberian refugees ages 10 to 13, lured the girl to an empty storage shed July 16 with the promise of chewing gum, then restrained and raped her.
