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A young girl sits in a DOG CAGE in the back of a pickup truck.
Police were alerted by stunned motorists in western Pennsylvaniam on Monday night.
The girl, aged 10, was later found unharmed.
Her mother, 29-year-old Abbey Carlson, and stepfather, Thomas Fishinger, 30, are now facing charges of endangering the welfare of a child.
Fishinger told police they had been driving home from his mother's house.
Police said they told them the girl had said she wanted to be with the dog.