Police: Girl, 9, woke up to burglary suspect in her bed at Bensalem home
BENSALEM, Pa. - A young girl awoke to a terrifying nightmare when police say she found a grown man beside her in her own bed.
Police were responding to a burglary in progress on the 300 block of Thunder Circle in Bensalem when they were alerted to the incident.
The 9-year-old victim ran out of her room when she woke up next to a burglary suspect wearing just underwear, according to authorities. She told police that the man touched her inappropriately.
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She ran to tell her father, who says he found the man sitting on his daughter's bed wrapped in a blanket.
The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Paddy Patrick Purcell, fled before police arrived. However, he was taken into custody a short time later at a nearby apartment.
He is charged with burglary, criminal trespass and indecent assault of a child under 13 years old, and arraigned on $1 million bail.