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Young girl's fight against attacker caught on video

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PHILADELPHIA, Pennyslvania -

A young girl from Philadelphia fends off a would-be abductor and the entire thing was captured on video.

When you look at the surveillance footage, you can see a young girl walking with her little brother.

Her father says the pair was on their way to their mother's house when a man put his hand over the girl's mouth and picked her up.

She was eventually able to get free and the man took off.  ABC News reports the suspect has been arrested.

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